Description: Josh summarizes key findings distilled from last year’s Pension Section Survey, and reports on a fifteen-item action plan that was ratified by the Pension Section Council in February for near-term implementation.

Description: This is the presidential address at the 1989 SOA Annual Meeting by departing SOA president, Ian M. Rolland. He discusses the strengths of the actuarial profession and professional development needs for the future.

Description: The SOA released a report titled Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform, which looks at the impact on insurance markets, pricing and profitability.

Description: The SOA released a report titled Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform, which looks at the impact on insurance markets, pricing and profitability.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, that discusses our learnings through the 30 years of offering continuing education in light of the potential for mandatory CE.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a variety of topics, such as the use of sampling techniques and quality control in actuarial work, and administrative measures taken to reduce expenses on small Ordinary policies. The discussion also looked at what the Society of Actuaries and local actuarial clubs should do, at the secondary school or college level, to increase the number of college graduates entering the actuarial field.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial staff of the U.S. General Accounting Office GAO, providing a bit of history, the structure of the GAO, and explaining that GAO actuaries act as consultants to all the operating divisions of the GAO on matters involving pensions, insurance, and related issues. The author also revisits an earlier proposal for a Government Actuary, a higher level position responsible for all actuarial work of the Executive branch, as well as the GAO, and asks whether the actuarial profession should again support such a proposal.

Description: this article discusses the differences between International Pension Plans and Pan European Plans and when it is appropriate to use each

Description: An overview of how the actuary's role will evolve as technology improves.

Description: In this “nontraditional” general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, the panelists, a “judge,” a “defendant,” and a “prosecutor” present a humorous “trial” to explore what the boundaries of “traditional” actuarial work are. A theme of the session is that some of what we call “nontraditional” is an expansion of traditional actuarial work, and that we owe it to our public to broaden our horizons. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.