Description: This study examines individual universal life persistency. This report shows annualized results based on data from calendar years 1988, 1990, and 1992. The purpose of this study is to examine universal life lapsation and persistency by selected policy, agent, insured, and product characteristics.

Description: Excel file to be attached to cover sheet on this same 2005-2007 individual life persistency study. Contains the actual persistency experience data from the study.

Description: This session meets the needs of life insurance actuaries who are focused on experience studies, assumption setting, and/or product development. The presenters will use industry data to illustrate how policyholders react to product design, such as premium jumps in the PLT period and UL with high interest rate illustration, and trends in the life insurance market, including the introduction of smoking distinguished rates and the shift towards an increasing number of preferred underwriting classes.

Description: Experience-study instructions to contributors. Looks to develop inter-company information about expenses for many types of individual [not group] life and annuity products.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: A summary of the 2001 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.

Description: This article provides a description of the development process for the 2003 GRET factors. The results were also presented and discussed.

Description: Data call for the upcoming Group Term Life Experience Study, which will cover 2007 to 2009. This is a long-standing experience study of the SOA. The results are used by companies to update pricing, and in the past, the IRS has used results to update Table I rates, which determine imputed income related to group term life employer plans.

Description: This report presents a new set of select and ultimate expected individual life insurance lapse tables, based on inter-company experience of standard ordinary business between 1971-1972 policy anniversaries. Discussion includes overview of how the data was collected and how the tables were constructed and how they should be applied in practice.