Description: Paper provides an overview of the impacts of population aging on the design and marketing of group life and health and group pension products over the next 40 years. While the paper is written with a group focus, the implications of the material for individual product design and marketing are immediately obvious and equally important. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: Review of the fifth and final report in the 1960 Census Monograph Series created by the Social Science Research Council. Makes a compelling case for the monograph providing a good historical and statistical analysis of the changing U.S. population and demographics.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that highlights since 1981, U.S. federal budget cutbacks have clamped down hard on the federal agencies that produce all kinds of statistics - demographic, economic and regulatory data. Actuaries, who use these federal statistics to develop mortality tables, to produce marketing studies, to examine economic trends, and to study health costs, should work with the federal agencies to restore this data.

Description: The author provides highlights from a March 2012 seminar on longevity risk sponsored by the Actuarial Society of New York (ASNY).

Description: This paper presents a new method for blending census and Medicare mortality rates for the U.S. Decennial Life Tables. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992 Vol. 2 .

Description: The article discovers that mortality is higher for females than for males at higher ages, and suggests "stress" as the explanation. It then discusses mental illness research, including recovery therefrom.

Description: A review of the latest of a series of reports from Statistics Canada, covering data from various Canadian social benefits programs for 1971-1977.

Description: A review of the book Abundance by Steven Kotler and Peter H. Diamandis.

Description: The article looks at potential changes in care provider demographics that could ultimately have an impact on the cost of long term care services.

Description: This is an update on the final Report of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and six volumes of the research papers used by the Commission in writing the report. The article gives the names of the seven volumes of research which are available from the Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office.