New Swedish mortality table for annuity insurance

Abstract

The processive lowering of the general death rate during a considerable time past, which in spite of a temporary check such as the Spanish Flu epidemic of the years 1918–1920 is yet plainly evident, is a phenomenon of great significance for life insurance in general, and especially for life annuity insurance. Attention has been devoted to this trend by insurance men, and attempts have been made in several quarters to design mortality tables that could be regarded as affording ample security for the latter type of insurance. (Reference may in this connection be made to articles in ?Skandinavisk Aktuarietidskrift?, XII, p. 239 and XV, p. 45.)