“On Contemporary Mortality Models for Actuarial Use I: practice and II: principles” by Professor Angus Macdonald and Dr Stephen Richards

Edinburgh, runs his own consulting and software firm, Longevitas.My reason for being your moderator is that Stephen (Richards) and I have known each other for more than 15 years.I am an avid user of his contemporary mortality models.Besides providing a very elegant solution to the problem of graduating mortality tables, the main attraction for me is that they reduce the amount of work the actuary must do because they are much simpler than many other models.Our first speaker, Angus Macdonald, was Stephen (Richards)'s PhD supervisor.Essentially, what you are seeing today is three generations of users of these models.