Description: Article from The Actuary December 1995 Volume 29, No. 10 Highlights the year in review

Description: This editorial by the Editor of the Actuary discusses the shrinkage of volunteers contributing to the SOA, and discusses the importance of volunteers to the SOA and the benefits of such volunteering to our societal well-being.

Description: The author attempts to weave together biological and environmental explanations into the mathematical approaches developed over the past two centuries so as to, in the words of two earlier authors from the actuarial profession, reground the relationship of actuarial science with cellular biology and gerontology. Also examined is the extent to which increasing wealth and higher standards of education and health contribute to happiness.

Description: This presentation from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting covers AIDS, where the disease is now, how the forecasts compare to what has actually happened and the current impact on pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the Society's fiscal activities and long-range financial plan.

Description: A review of a speech given by E. J. Moorhead. Mr. Moorhead described what he saw as life insurance industry missed opportunities for increased transparency which would be resolved by Congress and public outcry. Interesting historical perspective which could be used a reminder for today.

Description: This is a report of the activities and goals of the Administration And Finance Committee of the Society along with the financial report of the SOA presented July 31,1988.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about capital management. Topics included: 1. Capital allocation. 2. Capital rationing. 3. Financial or product-line management issues.

Description: Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with their counterparts at Oxford University, probing the future, have explored proton decay to estimate that the universe will last for many years, by which time there will be no heat, no light, no matter, no anything time itself will have ceased to exist. This helpful information puts a new cast on such notions as “infinity” and “forever.”

Description: The purpose of this report, prepared by the Society of Actuaries' Education and Examination Committee, is to provide the Board of Governors and the Education Policy Committee with a strategic basis for actuarial education and a philosophical foundation for education policy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.