Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: This article is about variable annuity products in Japan. Topics covered are the history of variable annuities, product and risk management, distribution, the regulatory environment and the market outlook.

Description: This article is a review of another article that is an exposition of the mathematical methods used in the Framingham Study.

Description: The author suggests that the actuarial profession is a gold standard for other professions and that getting the next generation of actuaries involved early seems critical to ensuring the actuarial profession retains the title of the 'best job in America' for years to come. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: The author summaries several reports from the IBM Symposium on operations research techniques and their future outlook 1968.

Description: Feature article discussing the PBGC’s asset reallocation plan.

Description: This is an article about how our business environment has changed and how actuaries must evolve in order to retain their value to employers.

Description: This article describes the activities and results of an SOA Task Force on Expansion of Mortality and Morbidity Statistics which was formed to review the mortality and morbidity research undertaken and the statistics published outside the recognized actuarial organizations.

Description: The article notes that the Society of Actuaries has been invited as one of four new members on the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics JAHCOGS, and tells Society members “if you use government statistics - if you would like data to be available to you before they are outdated - if you have doubts about the quality or accuracy of data and/or analyses - if you are concerned about costs to industry and taxpayers of information gathering - if you have ideas on how to improve any phase of government statistics - here is your chance to speak out.”

Description: This article notes a family with four actuaries, a bad real estate gamble involving a 121 year old lady, and a book crediting Robert Myers with establishing age 65 as the retirement age for Social Security.