Description: This paper takes the position that the U.K. actuarial profession has still not come to a single view on financial economics, and the major divisions that remain continue to hamstring its policy development. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: Article is about community rating and risk adjustment including possible disadvantages for healthy experience-rated or self-insured groups.

Description: Discussion of solvency problems and the actuary's role in addressing them in the life insurance industry.

Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Article The Pensions Scene In Canada by Ezra in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: Article Portrait Of An Actuary by Moorhead in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4

Description: Article Board Of Governors by Bog in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: On the eve of dissemination of an interim report by the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, The New York Times has printed four articles May 18-21 entitled “The Pension Tangle.” This addresses the first of this quartet, regarding the threat of inflation to the private pension system.

Description: This is the fourth paper on n-year roll forward reserve financing of public benefit systems, especially Old-Age, Survivors and disability Insurance OASDI, prepared by University of Michigan faculty and students. As the papers have developed, some ideas have been simplified, while others have become more complex. It is concluded that the theoretical model requires further attention. This research can be extended to expand our knowledge of OASDI financing and the applicability of n-year roll forward reserve financing.

Description: These are the abstract, outline, graphs and tables of the paper “Conclusions from Michigan Studies of Social Security Financing”. By such studies we mean the papers prepared during the past five years by actuarial students and Cecil Nesbitt, and which have appeared in ARCH. The paper is in three parts: A lengthy Abstract, followed by 17 pages of text, graphs, tables and references. The third part is a 10 page Appendix which gives the proofs of text statements.