Description: These are the Discussant Comments by Sam Gutterman for the Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation After Retirement Session 1B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is one of eight essays from the collection: 2020 Living to 100 Essays.

Description: This is a paper from the session on Migration and Other Factors at the January 15-18, 2023, 2023 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is a paper from the session on Education Influence on Mortality at the January 15-18, 2023, 2023 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: These products effectively provide policyholders access to an equity index with an option pass-through. This new direction blurs the line between more traditional variable annuity and fixed indexed annuity products. This session will discuss these and other similar product innovations, including some interesting regulatory, accounting, and risk management considerations.

Description: The presenter will share his opinion on the major and minor cycle of the global and China economy. He believes that the recovery of the major cycle depends on the resonance of politics between China and the United States, as well as reform. As the minor cycle is V-type, the weak recovery depends on policy and price increase. The liquidity regulation and the growth advance together. The economic cycle is stabilizing, monetary policy is tightening the margin and the importance of the regulation is increasing. But the increase of the economy is critical to risk controlling.

Description: General Introduction of Block Chain•This session will introduce the definition, history and current status of block chain, as well as the necessities of its development.Incorporating Block Chain into the Insurance Industry•Presenters will illustrate the significant roles, unique features and future prospects of block chain’s application in an insurance company’s operation.Actuarial Application in Block Chain Development•Experts will demonstrate what roles actuaries play and how actuarial techniques can be optimized in block chain development.The Achievements of Block Chain’s Application in Sunshine Insurance Group•This session will discuss the implementation process, as well as the remarkable achievements of block chain’s application in Sunshine Insurance Group.

Description: The session will talk about Management expectation and key development areas of Big Data, overview of big data application in the life insurance industry.

Description: Discussion resulting from presentation of Held's Plastic Omega paper at the Living to 100 and Beyond symposium, Session 1. This is Held's response to Jay Olshansky's comments regarding his paper, which discussed research on the aging process.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2002. This paper presents data on the mortality, and mortality improvement trends, for retired U.S. Civil Service employees and their survivors, and analyzes the relationship to such factors as: Indexed final salary, Amount of indexed annuity, Total service at retirement, Duration on the Annuity Rolls, Retiree vs. beneficiary, Disability vs. non-disability.