By Steve Schumacher, FSA, MAAA Read the report Prior to RGA completing its first Post Level Term lapse and mortality study with the SOA in 2009, a wide range of assumptions was in use by actuaries with little industry-wide late-duration level term experience available to compare against. This first study analyzed shock lapse and mortality deterioration assumptions and experience by a variety of...
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