“5 Things Actuaries Are Saying About Death Now,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor

“Life insurers use their own private mortality data, and general life insurance industry mortality data, to design and price life insurance policies and annuities. Some of the top mortality experts in the world are the life insurance and pension actuaries who work on Society of Actuary (SOA) mortality analyses. Three SOA actuaries— R. Jerome Holman, Cynthia MacDonald and Peter Miller — recently released a new mortality report, ‘U.S. Population Mortality Observers: Updated with 2017 Experience.’ … Here’s a look at five things that happened to U.S. mortality in 2017, drawn from the new SOA report.”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Click through to see the disturbing results.