Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to annuity insurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: This report documents modeling work and compares the decomposition results from the two routes described in Volume 1.

Description: The 1990–95 Basic Select and Ultimate Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance are now available. Four tables have been produced age nearest birthday and age last birthday tables for both males and females. The tables have been produced for individual issue ages 0 through 99 on a 25–year select basis and for ultimate attained ages 25 through 110. There is a breakdown by smoking status and by policy size.

Description: This article is a response to the article Current U.S. Ordinary Life Mortality by Doug Doll and Mike Jones. The author offers his interpretation of the mortality improvements observed between 1980-85 and 1983-88.

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: A document summarizing key observations on historical U.S. population mortality rates by gender and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2018.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that separates mortality into component parts in order to analyze observed trends over time.

Description: The RP-2006 and RPH-2006 Mortality Tables were created from the same data as the RP-2014 and RPH-2014 tables, but with rates as of the central year of 2006.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model. The RPEC_O2_v2018 model found here utilizes the same projection methodology underpinning the RPEC_2014 model except that the historical rates have been developed using “order-2” Whittaker-Henderson graduation rather than “order-3”. Similar to the RPEC_2014_v2018 model, this tool reflects historical U.S. mortality experience through 2016 and can be used to model different assumption sets.

Description: This annual update to the RPEC_2014 model and corresponding mortality improvement scales reflects historical U.S. population mortality experience through 2016.