Description: Review of The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, by prominent statistician David J. Hand.

Description: Book review of Steve Vernon’s Money for Life, Turn your IRA and 401(k) into a Lifetime Retirement Paycheck

Description: SOA executive director’s column, research on Asia insurance opportunities, e-courses, recent research and experience studies, and professional development opportunities.

Description: Background of the Manhart case on sex discrimination in pension rates, summary of the brief prepared for the case by an SOA task force, and text of a letter submitted to the court by SOA members critical of the brief.

Description: Discusses the new operating procedures approved by the Board of Governors for the Committee on Papers. The goal of the new procedures is to improve the quality of the papers published in the Transactions.

Description: A call for papers on health insurance topics to enhance the program for a 1979 special topic meeting of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Book review on Standards for Discussion and Presentation of Errors in Survey and Census Data by the American Statistical Association, Washington, D.C., 1975. The material will be of interest to actuaries and of help in preparing their own study reports. The guidelines discuss some relatively simple means of presenting error estimates for published data.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that is article no. 7 in a series discussing an actuarial notation based on a symbolic logic.

Description: Intoduction to an issue of The Actuary focusing on the Manhart case, in which a controversial brief was presented to the Supreme Court by the SOA and AAA.

Description: The editorial emphasizes the importance of actuaries learning to excel at communication, and questions continuing education requirements that place maximums on the number of credits that can be earned for education in this area.