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 discussion on graded premiums looks at the effect of graded premiums on the volume of life insurance written, any problems which have developed from the operating, policyholder or agent perspective and emerging trends. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Discusses a speech by the Duke given at the Institute of Actuaries Twenty-Fourth Biennial Dinner on the Motor Car.

Description: This article draws attention to the competition for the Boleslaw Monic Prize. Prizes totalling Dutch florins 12,500, roughly US$4,500 are being offered for the three best papers submitted on: “The significance of inflation for the non-life insurance industry, with particular reference to the relationship between direct insurance and reinsurance the problems facing management and a suggested methodology for their solution.”

Description: This article discusses the works of Griffith Davies and other early writers on life contingencies.

Description: This is the second of two articles from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that discusses math exam prizewinners. The tabulation in our March issue summarized the experience from among 233 prizewinners of the 24-year period 1947-70. Forty-two of them became Fellows. In this article we examine these same 233 people in terms of the academic institutions from which they wrote the prizewinning examinations.

Description: This article is about a discussion at a 1919 joint meeting of the Actuarial Society and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors on prohibition.

Description: Peter G. Moore, Reason By Numbers. Peter Moore looks at the ways of gathering, presenting and interpreting information and explains the essential arithmetic of resource allocation, planning and decision theory.

Description: This report presents multiple book reviews with chapter by chapter detail: 'Our Yesterdays: the History of the Actuarial Profession in North America, 1809-1979' by E. J. Moorhead, 'Actuarial Mathematics' by Bowers, Gerber, Hickman, Jones and Nesbitt, 'Actuarial Projections for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program in the United States of America' by Andrews and Beekman, 'An Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance' by McCutcheon and Scott, 'On the Trail of Actuaries in Texas, 1844-1964' by Friedman and Friedman. 'From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: The article is an editorial on annuitant mortality over sixty years, 1923, 1943, 1963 and 1983.