Description: This report presents the results of a 2005 telephone study among Americans ages 45 to 80. The purpose of the study was to evaluate Americans' awareness of potential financial risks, how this awareness impacts the management of their finances with respect to retirement and how Americans are managing the process of leaving the workforce.

Description: This article describes the development of the uninsured pensioner, UP-94 Mortality Table, including a comparison with other tables and description of projection methodologies using Projection Scale AA.

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Description: The SOA's Committee on Finance Research is please to make available the results of this research project, jointly sponsored by the SOA and CAS, that explores economic series and provides and Excel based tool for generating future economic scenarios. This is an Excel Spreadsheet for Appendix C showing Simulated Financial Scenario Data of inflation rates and interest rates from this research project. Please see the SOA website for the full report and other related spreadsheets.

Description: Solicited by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), this is the perferred version of the 2001 CSO mortality tables.

Description: This report identifies and reviews relevant literature with respect to the valuation of private placement debt [PPD] and real estate, develops a case study examining the effectiveness of an actuarial valuation methods for PPD, and proposes guidelines regarding the valuation of illiquid assets.

Description: A research project defining relevant and actionable consumer segments among middle-income/mid-level net worth households.

Description: This paper was prepared to facilitate discussions with the New York State Insurance Department concerning price regulation and the application of minimum loss ratio standards for individual health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: The purpose of this paper was to describe some of the actuarial aspects of one company's electronic system and to discuss the underlying analyses and comparison of alternatives that led to the selection of particular electronic procedures to solve certain actuarial problems. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet that lists the CSO tables for super preferred, preferred ultimate, and residual standard ultimate for both females and males, smokers and non-smokers.