Actuaries seek better data on troubling age 80+ mortality trend
July 1, 2025 by John Hilton
Regulators and actuaries are considering a data change to better account for a puzzling mortality degradation in individuals ages 80 and older.
The Life Mortality Improvement Subgroup of the Mortality and Longevity Oversight Advisory Council wants to switch from general population data to insured population data. The two datasets are fairly similar up until age 80, when insured population mortality improvement sharply drops.
Originally Posted at InsuranceNewsNet on June 30, 2025 by John Hilton.
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