Description: This is the seventh experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: The 2012 Individual Annuity Reserving Report and Table

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of a survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys – Improving the New Business Process Survey Subcommittee. The survey examined the various changes U.S. and Canadian life insurance companies have recently made, or are considering making, to improve the new business process and to determine which changes were considered by the respondents to have had the most impact. Survey topics include the application process, changes to underwriting requirements, underwriting systems, underwriting resources, experience based on past changes, and policy delivery.

Description: This report presents the results of the 2013 Group Term Life Experience Study conducted by the Society of Actuaries’ Group Life Experience Committee.

Description: This web page describes the new 2013 Survey of Lapse and Mortality Experience report.

Description: Bob Howard, a member of RPEC, has developed a spreadsheet-based program that produces a set of one-dimensional mortality improvement factors that when projected generationally with RP-2014 base rates produces near-term annuity values that closely approximate corresponding annuity values determined using the full two-dimensional Scale MP-2014.

Description: This is the sixth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 35 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. The study includes policies issued between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 2007.

Description: The Predictive Modeling Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey that gathered information on behalf of the life insurance industry about the degree of the use of predictive modeling and the tools and methods used by life insurance companies to optimize results.

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 reinsurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

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