Description: GAR-94: Tracking The 50 States by Zenaida Samaniego from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee RPEC of the Society of Actuaries SOA is a standing committee that monitors pension plan mortality experience. Most recently, the committee developed the RP-2000 mortality table. This table was the first published North American mortality table based solely upon private sector pension plan mortality experience. Previous tables developed by the RPEC such as GAR-94 and UP-94 were based primarily on a combination of group annuity, and U.S. federal employees and retirees mortality experience. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: In this article the editor previews the issue.

Description: This article describes techniques and models used to forecast mortality improvement and the considerations that underlie long-term mortality improvement projections in the United States.

Description: this article provides a detailed, comprehensive and independent analysis of the impact of introducing the single-tier state pension.

Description: updates on SOA research

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.

Description: This article talks about RPEC’s February 2014 release of exposure draft reports for RP-2014 base tables and the MP-2014 projection scale (for use by U.S. pension actuaries), the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) new final pension mortality tables for Canadian pension plans.

Description: The recent release of the RP-2014 Mortality Table and Scale MP-2014 exposure drafts represent the SOA’s first comprehensive reexamination of U.S. pension-related mortality assumptions in over a decade. This paper summarizes the key conclusions reached in those exposure drafts and the estimated financial impact of adopting the new mortality assumptions.