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: Demographers have typically viewed mortality trends from historical and cross-national perspectives, looking at commonalities in the evolution of mortality. In general, with improving economic conditions mortality has tended to decline and life expectancies to rise. The epidemiological transition from a mortality pattern dominated by infectious diseases to one in which more endogenous causes of death predominate is a central theme.

Description: This paper provides some background about demography, health and retirement summarizes how current pension laws influence the design of pension plans and the timing of retirement and looks at the optimal retirement age from the perspective of employers, government and workers.

Description: In this article, author Anna Rappaport discusses highlights and wake-up calls from the December, 2009 Annual Retirement Security Symposium.

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

Description: Discusses various historical and projected future rates of mortality improvement, with a focus on older ages, and more.

Description: The abstract for the paper Mortality Laws and Models, Part 2 - Application of Mortality Models to Japan.

Description: The abstract for the paper Data Sources, Quality and Analyses - Data Quality of Oldest-Old Population in Taiwan 2003 Census for Ages 89 and above.

Description: Expert discussion on several previously presented papers. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: There are strong interactions between the population of Mexico and the Mexican-origin population in the United States MOP. The main purpose of this paper is the identification of relationships from the demographic and social security perspectives.