Description: This paper described the 80-column punched card which had been adopted by the New York Life and the general procedure which was being followed in the preparation of such mortality card on new issues of policies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: The presenters will address innovations in health and wellness designed to mitigate and/or manage mortality risk. The presenters will briefly review the latest research on the leading causes of death and share ways that life insurers and insurtech partnerships are using technology, customer engagement and scientific advances to enhance/extend the lives of policyholders. The presenters will draw from industry research and reinsurer studies and from the latest initiatives in health and wellness innovations.

Description: Presents a theoretical basis for a computerized methodology for estimating biological age - a measure of time to death.

Description: By disinformation we mean the inclusion of data that should not be considered in a study. In this paper we discuss a case in which the presence of disinformation was clear, but it was not possible to determine with certainly which records were extraneous.

Description: Recurrence relations arise naturally in life contingencies for 2 reasons - the aggregate law of mortality, which relates the distribution of the future life times of 2 insureds, if one of them and the other is that most life insurance products can be constructed as a portfolio of 2 basic product types. We use the above simple idea and the extra freedom provided by the fractional age distribution to reveal a structure behind some common recursions. The structure has obvious pedagogical value. More interestingly, a software based on it has been implemented which facilitates actuarial computing.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that recent advances in calculating equipment make possible producing graduations much more elaborate than any done previously. The paper confines itself to the problem of graduating a single column of rates, such as an ultimate column, using a Whittaker-Henderson B graduation of the fourth order. The author provides a detailed description of the process with significant mathematical theory.