Description: Discusses mortality improvements over the last 20 years, the extent to which premiums on nonparticipating policies reflect the changes in mortality experience, the proposed new valuation table, should valuation tables be split by gender, and extra mortality on substandard lives at very long durations.

Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: Covers 1983 - 1984 and 1979 - 1984 anniversaries mortality experience for individual life insurance.

Description: Covers individual life mortality experience for the 1981 - 1982 anniversary period and for the 1977 - 1982 anniversary period.

Description: Covers the mortality experience under for individual life insurance between 1982 and 1983 policy anniversaries. The report also covers experience between 1978 and 1983 policy anniversaries for certain comparisons of data.

Description: Covers 1984 - 1985 and 1980 - 1985 anniversaries mortality experience for individual life.

Description: This article discusses the charge for the new SOA/COVARA AIDS Task Force. This new task force will examine and report on the principles and techniques for the financial recognition of AIDS for insurance companies, recognizing both statutory and GAAP accounting.

Description: The article summarizes two of the highest rated sessions sponsored by the Reinsurance Section during the 2013 SOA Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Description: This paper develops the apportionate basis for the immediate payment of claims as an alternative to continuous functions. A new function, the apportionable annuity due, is defined and derived and formulas for net premiums and terminal reserves on the apportionable basis are developed. Then an investigation is made of the relationship of net premiums and terminal reserves on the apportionable basis to the corresponding functions on the continuous functions basis.

Description: The adjustment coefficient R plays an important role in mathematical ruin theory this paper presents several different methods for estimating the variance of R. Examples are given in which the variance is so high that the estimate of R must be considered essentially worthless and other means are sought for estimating ruin probabilities. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.