Description: This paper discusses adjustable life insurance and certain theoretical problems of these policies. It also covers how the Commissioners Reserve Valuation Method, CRVM, may be extended to cover adjustable life policies and defines formulas for the additional expense allowance at the time of change. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.

Description: This paper begins with an investigation of the conceptual profit model known as Anderson's formula, then it compares Anderson's formula with two alternative profit formulas and discusses some applications and limitations of each method. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' paper by Sternhell.