Description: The session offers high-level initial steps to get started using R, as well as a list of helpful resources for both general data science and actuarial science with R. Attendees will learn about popular R packages to perform practical tasks such as importing, transforming and visualizing data, as well as packages commonly used by actuaries. You will also be introduced to the markdown package for creating reproducible and reusable analyses and workflows. By the end of the session, you will be familiar enough with using R and RStudio to begin incorporating these tools in your day-to-day work as an actuary

Description: This analysis is being done to determine how recent experience, from the statistical agent data collected by MIB, is emerging relative to the 2015 VBT.

Description: These are the discussant comments from Session 1A: Data Sources and Analysis from the January 4-6 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the Concurrent Session 1B: Late Life Mortality Curves from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Tables for 1991-1992 individual life mortality experience study

Description: This analysis is being done to determine how recent experience, from the statistical agent data collected by MIB, is emerging relative to the 2015 VBT.

Description: This paper analyzes which of the factors that affect retirement mortality determined in Phase I of the FARM project should be added to the existing mortality studies of the Society of Actuaries. Some factors were added or modified and two were dropped from those in Phase I.

Description: This report presents the 1997 and 1998 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada. Data for calendar years 1993 through 1996 are also included to provide a comparison with 1997 and 1998 experience and to provide information on mortality trends over time.

Description: This is the mortality tables that appear in the 2000-2004 Preneed Insurance Mortality Study report. Please see the SOA website for the complete report.

Description: The attached report presents the results of a survey conducted by the Society of Actuaries Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee in July of 2008 under the following categories: 1. Modeling Mortality Risk. 2. Use of Reinsurance to Manage Mortality. 3. Retention / Large Case Management. 4. Catastrophe Reinsurance. 5. Mortality Concentration of Risk. 6. Catastrophic Bonds.