Description: The Society of Actuaries Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is pleased to release this report examining how well people estimate their own life expectancy.

Description: Letter issued by the Society of Actuaries to Life Insurance Companies that have indicated they could contribute to a Mortality Study of Individual Variable Annuities in the Deferred Period. Instructions on how to contribute data are included.

Description: This is a report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2005-07.

Description: Recent trends in mortality suggest that future gains in life expectancy will occur after age 80. This fact stresses the need and the importance to obtain precise measures of mortality at the highest ages, which are always subject to uncertainty due to misreporting of age at death.

Description: Mortality in the U.S. states at ages 80 and older and over years 1959–2011 analyzed and compared with mortality levels in 13 high-longevity countries.

Description: We ask whether we can find support for the previously reported upper limit of the force of mortality of 0.7, i.e. about the probability of tossing a fair coin.

Description: Covers aviation mortality from 1973 - 1982 obtained from United States and Canadian governmental sources, both civilian and military.

Description: Covers mortality experience under Canadian individual payout annuities and certain deferred annuities which have no cash value or no right to change the policy.

Description: This second study of intercompany mortality experience under structured settlement annuities examines experience through calendar year 1993.

Description: This report describes the mortality experience by cause of death from 1983 to 1988 policy anniversaries and includes data from the same companies that contribute to the annual study of Mortality under Standard Ordinary Insurance Issues.