Description: These are the reports of the following committees: the Committee to Study Pension Plan Problems, the Committee to Study Pension Accounting, the Educations and Examination Committee, the Committee on Professional Conduct, the Committee on Status and Accreditation and a report on 'The Actuary'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No 53.

Description: This general discussion looks at the results derived from the 15th International Congress of Actuaries and the legislations adopted in Canada and proposed in the U.S. giving favorable tax treatment to pension contributions by the self-employed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: This discussion examined underwriting and if the present method of classifying substandard risks as a percentage of standard can be improved and if the basis of dividing standard from substandard risks can be changed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This paper and discussion is a review of the changes that have occurred recently in the basic principles that underlie the sale and distribution of individual life insurance including underwriting fairness, laws and regulations affecting discrimination, limitations in the underwriting process and competition. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: Arthur Pedoe Obituary: Summary of many essays Mr. Pedoe published on a variety of topics dealing with the actuarial profession

Description: This article is about a proposed Amendment to the Society of Actuaries Constitution that will permit the Society to take a public position on the actuarial content of matters within the area of public interest.

Description: There is a story, probably apocryphal, about The Marriage of Figaro, that Mozart, just before the curtain went up on the first performance, discovered that he had omitted to furnish an overture. Nothing daunted, he sat down and in no time flat dashed off the score of the overture.

Description: Adlai Stevenson is reported to have described the duties of an editor as separating the wheat from the chaff and throwing away the wheat. Perhaps this emphasis on the chaff is one reason why we have frequent difficulties in determining the actual month of issue. On the other hand, the editors ally themselves with Jack Point who said “O winnow all my folly and you’ll find a grain or two of truth among the chaff.”

Description: This article summarizes the 1967 Surgeon General’s report on the health consequences of smoking.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 talks about an exposure draft. The Exposure Draft of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on Audits of Life Insurance Companies has not apparently had among actuaries the wide circulation it deserves, judging by the relatively few responses to Robert Winters letter in the February issue of The Actuary. This is a most important document because it affects not only the accounting practices of life insurance companies but also the status of the actuarial profession.