Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the SOA’s Individual Life Insurance Experience Committee. This report is on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. In previous reports, mortality experience over a single anniversary year was studied. In this report, experience over four individual anniversary-to-anniversary study years is reported with the discussion focusing on trends during this period. This report is expected to appear in a future issue of the Society's TSA Reports. Consists of five pdf documents: a report and four containing tables.

Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the SOA’s Individual Life Insurance Experience Committee. This report is on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study focuses on the single year results from the 1995-96 study period and also examines experience in the most recent five-year period 1991-96 in order to provide a larger volume of data so that broader comparisons of results can be made. Consists of two pdf documents: a report and tables.

Description: This article offers ideas on how to simplify the sale of life insurance over the internet.

Description: Full version of Pension Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 39.

Description: This paper shows an approach whereby future asset returns and liabilities are modeled taking into account the probability of various returns. It develops an asset-smoothing approach that uses an expected return on the asset mix and averages both historical and projected asset values. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: Read an interview with SOA presidential candidate Barnet N. Berin, Managing Director and Chief Actuary for William M. Mercer, Inc. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: In this article, the author gives an overview a number of Enterprise Risk Management ERM issues that arise when one considers the impact of income tax on a fair value accounting system.

Description: This article contains the statistics of the equity premium or market risk premium [MRP] uses in 2011 for 56 countries. The paper also contains the references used to justify the MRP and comments from persons that both use and do not use MRP.

Description: Full version of Health Section News, January 2002, Issue No. 42.

Description: Cover article introducing this month's newsletter and discussing the highlights of the contents of the newsletter