Thirdly, can you kindly explain this from page 17 "It may instead be assumed that the mortality experience of those who take up the option will be the Ultimate experience which corresponds to the Select experience that would have been used as a basis if underwriting had been completed as normal when the option was exercised."?
Doesn't this lead to a lower mortality since Select experience is lower or does this mean the Ultimate experience will be used ie what the policyholders' mortality rate would have been even without the option take up?
I think I am confused because after that it says this: "However, this would mean that the average mortality for all lives has been assumed to be more than the base mortality assumption, since those taking up the option are assumed to experience higher mortality than this level." which makes me think that the sentence previously means that the mortality rate assumed is higher than the base (ie Ultimate) which is not what I understand.
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