Description: This article summarizes disciplinary actions taken during May and June 2011 by Society of Actuaries' Discipline Committees convened to review matters referred by the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline ['ABCD'].

Description: This author makes a few suggestions for how the ASB can improve the way it defines and sets standards of practice in light of the challenges actuaries face today. The author believes that ASOP's hould be promulgated by the ASB ony after a thorough process that goes beyond codifying existing practices.

Description: This article announces that the Society Board has reaffirmed its desire to adopt actuarial principles as statements of opinion by forming a new Committee on Actuarial Principles. The types of principles considered are Basic Principles, Methodology Principles = Techniques, and Behavioral Principles = Standards of Practice.

Description: In this increasingly global economy, actuaries frequently find themselves in situations involving cross-border practice. This is particularly true for U.S. and Canadian actuaries. This article is about recent agreements and discussions among the U.S. actuarial organizations and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries [CIA] that clarify how the various actuarial standards apply to cross-border activities.

Description: Editorial on the importance of the Actuarial Standards Board ASB to the profession. 'The ASB keeps the profession on track by establishing standards of practice that allow actuaries to act professionally, with integrity, and in the public's interest. Standards give the profession one set of rules and present a unified front to the public.' From The Actuary, September 1994, Volume 28, No. 7.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 1 is an actuary's view on accountants and adjusted earnings.

Description: Actuaries may soon be required to select assumptions that are individually reasonable when measuring pension obligations. This is the core meaning of a proposed amendment to the Actuarial Standard of Practice #4 in addition to the proposed ASOP on economic assumptions.

Description: Article on the need for continuing education for actuaries

Description: President Gary Corbett cites the major issues he sees facing the SOA: education and examinations, research, actuarial principles, strengthening the profession, the future of the actuary/the actuary of the future, and employee benefits.

Description: This article is about the fourth conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries that was held in Amsterdam on May 26 to 30, 1974. Consulting actuaries, as advisers to pension plans and insurance companies, are facing serious and surprisingly similar problems in the countries represented. While many topics were covered, the key areas appeared to be inflation, social security, regulations, relationships with accountants and professional responsibility.