Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Dwight K. Bartlett III. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.

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.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summarizes recent publications: 'Equitable Assurances' by Ogborn, 'Fulfilling Pension Expectations' by McGill, 'Voluntary Health Insurance and Rate Making' by MacIntyre, 'Prepayment for Medical and Dental Care in New York State...' by State of New York, 'Financing Health Care of the Aged, Part I' by Blue Cross, 'The Second Report of the Ontario Committee on Portable Pensions' by Gathercole and MacGregor, 'Economics of Unemployment Compensation' by Princeton University, 'The Investment Process as Characterized by Leading Life Insurance Companies' by Walter. Some digests also included.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1949: 1. 'Giant Brains or Machines That Think' by Edmund Caliis Berkeley, and 2. 'Statistics, An Intermediate Textbook, Volume I' by N. L. Johnson and H. Tetley. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1960: 1. 'Ensuring Medical Care for the Aged' by M. Spiegelman, 2. 'All Lines Insurance' edited by D.McGill, 3. 'Alternative Methods of Financing Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance' by J. J. Carroll, and 4. 'Installing Electronic Procedures-A Progress Report' by J. J. Finelli. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1961: 1. 'Legal Status of Employee Benefit Rights under Private Pension Plans' by B. Aaron, and 2. 'Transition to Multiple-Line Insurance Companies' by D. L. Bickelhaupt. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: Description of the consulting segment of the actuarial profession as it now exists in Canada and the United States, the environment in which it has developed, and some of the unresolved problems and possible future developments. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: In this paper, David H. Berne demonstrates mathematically how insurance and annuity premiums can be expressed as weighted averages of compound interest functions. These concepts are expanded on in the paper and discussion. The author noted his approach was to demonstrate the averaging process that goes into the development of actuarial present values, and to provide a new look at the meaning and use of weighted averages. From the 1961 Transactions Vol. 13, No. 36 AB.

Description: This is the index to papers published in Volume 4 of Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1952.