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

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: 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 report reviews estimates of 2017 U.S. population mortality experience from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System.

Description: In this project the researchers explored the new opportunities provided by the ongoing revolution in information technology for studies of exceptional human longevity. Methodologies and interpretation of the results were presented.

Description: Spreadsheet with documentation for exhibits to the May 2007 report: The Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life insurance Industry

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

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