Description: This page presents the Table of Contents to the Price, Waterhouse study. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Using population data, mortality rates are projected for people who will attain age 80 in the future. Finally, the distribution of the maximum age at death that will be attained by a Canadian is investigated.

Description: This paper presents an analysis of mortality in a sample of 441adults aged 55 to 85 at baseline, who were observed for eight years. The study was initiated for the purpose of analyzing age-related changes in a variety of physical variables and their impact on functional independence. The modeling approach is discussed and the factors which were most significantly related to mortality.

Description: In this session we have two papers. The first, by James Fox on Pensioner Mortality in the New York State Retirement System, is the most “actuarially oriented” of the papers I’ve reviewed, in the sense that it’s concerned with the longterm financial solvency of the Retirement System of New York.

Description: This paper reviews the geriatric literature to identify risk factors that could be used by insurers to identify existing or incipient frailty.

Description: Discussion of paper presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium. Discusses paper by Guo and Wang on the use of data mining to determine the key factors affecting mortality rates at older ages.

Description: Tables used for the Underlying and Multiple Cause Mortality at Advanced Ages: United States 1980-1998 paper.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Expert discussion on several previously presented papers. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper demonstrates the potential synergies from applying actuarial techniques to operational risk analysis. It also demonstrates practical techniques, grounded in actuarial science, to solve operational risk management problems such as risk cost allocation and risk mitigation cost-benefit analysis. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.