Description: Highlights of the 2014 Living to 100 Symposium.

Description: Discusses the various kinds of medical research being conducted that hold the promise of extending people's lives.

Description: A key concept in post-retirement planning is the random variable future lifetime of a life aged x. While age is an important factor in the determination of this variable, there are other relevant factors, like the state of health and the character of a life aged x. The purpose of this article is to presents some preliminary observations regarding the conceptualization of future lifetime as a fuzzy random variable.

Description: Demographic challenges due to longevity increases and low fertility rates will lower economic growth as measured by GDP. By deconstructing GDP growth between population and productivity growth the article describes the problem and presents potential solutions. The article builds off an SOA research paper published in November 2023, Demographics and Productivity: Drivers of Economic Growth.

Description: A description of the 2014 Living to 100 Triennial Symposium including a summary of some of the papers presented, a description of the international aspects, and links to the Living to 100 website.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which the author writes was suggested by Solomon Goldfinger’s study of A Stationary Population Problem in the Bible.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the September 2016 issue of Pension Section News published by the The Pension Section.

Description: Analysis of the impact of disease progression and treatment on life expectancy provides perspective on the long term costs to the health care system of chronic medical conditions.

Description: This article discusses whether or not life expectancy will continue to increase.

Description: This article delves into a new line of statistical thinking of the author, that may be useful for product development actuaries. The key concept is how product design can produce products that diversify quickly, meaning that the company can be confident of a profitable product line, based on fewer sales than might be true for other designs.