Description: This report discusses drivers of U.S. mortality improvement for the short and long term.

Description: This article discusses the concept of Conservation of Mortality ("Conservation"). Conservation is the modeling principle that ensures consistency between assumptions of the total mortality of a population and mortality among population subsets. This article discusses the use cases for Conservation and the many ways that one could implement it in a model or an experience study. This article also discusses the potential issues that arise when using Conservation, and how one might solve or alleviate these issues.

Description: Results of a Survey of JRMS members re claims changes due to COVID

Description: This article is an introduction to the topic of mortality projections and their impact on social security systems. The article reviews two life expectancy graphs and overall trends in life expectancy by gender at birth and age 65 in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Description: This paper outlines a statistical modeling framework for fitting mortality laws to mortality experience data. The process can be used as an alternative to traditional graduation techniques used in mortality table development.

Description: This article proposes a framework for estimating mortality improvement models and analyzing the parameter uncertainty in such models.

Description: Appendix 5 for The United States Mortality DataBase Research Report.

Description: Appendix 6 for The United States Mortality DataBase Research Report.

Description: This report provides early insights into the level of U.S. population mortality in 2018

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report, which presents the 2003 through 2006 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. The committee has also presented the results in pivot table format to allow readers to easily customize their analyses to suit their individual purposes. This is that table which is call 2001-2006 Group Annuity Pivot Table. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.