Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet, provided by the Society of Actuaries Pension Section, containing Canadian Government benefits data.

Description: Asset/Liability Watch February, 2016

Description: The latest Long-Term Care Insurance Persistency Report covers a three calendar-year period, years 2005 - 2007. This is the Excel spreadsheet containing the lapse rates broken down by demographic and benefit categories as well as in total. Please see the SOA website for the complete report.

Description: The 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table (2013 IDIVT) approved by the NAIC as the new statutory minimum reserve morbidity basis.

Description: This is an Excel workbook that contains detailed reviews of the literature that was searched in the course of a study that explored pre-retirement influences on attitudes and decisions regarding retirement. The research study, conducted by Linda Smith Brothers, reviewed sixty papers written since 1990, and summarized their important points under several categories. The workbook contains a description of the specific categories covered and how they are addressed by each of the sixty papers that were reviewed.

Description: Research project examining the utility of standard eligibility and claims extracts for complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM) analysis. Report includes links to extracts and tables.

Description: Valuation for short–duration health insurance products is as much an art as it is a science. This session offers an opportunity for experienced practitioners in the field to compare brushstrokes and learn from their peers. Moderators will frame the discussion, but you are expected to actively participate. Topics could include such matters as: approaches to estimating ultimate incurred claims for immature incurral months, considerations for selecting among completion factor methods, how to effectively employ claim inventory data, assessing incurred–claim and paid–claim seasonality and approaches to premium deficiency reserve (PDR) testing and documentation.