Description: In the fall of 1983, the Actuaries’ Club of the Southwest set an example that other clubs and writers would do well to follow. Its president proposed as one of its projects a “history of the Club and actuarial practices in the Southwest.” Would that other laborers in the historical vineyard could be half as fortunate!

Description: Summarizes the 1980 Social Security Trustees Report and Actuarial Study No. 82 on cost estimates. Also provides some analysis of these matters.

Description: This article is a summary of responses to a questionnaire from Benjamin I. Gottlieb in Washington that had been sent to a random sample of 500 Society Fellows in the U.S. The questionnaire dealt with the anticipated long-term economic and demographic assumptions for social security.

Description: Article on details of SOA member growth by decades. At the end of 1929 the roster of Fellows counting both the Actuarial Society and the American Institute but eliminating duplications totalled 360. Half a century later, the number was 4,024.

Description: This is a discussion about measuring and comparing net costs for life insurance and determining a proper method for doing so. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59AB

Description: Consensus of viewpoints from a group discussion on economic forecasting at the March meeting of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 10, that is an editorial written by the editor of The Actuary that highlights that in recent years many U.K. insurance companies have moved away from London so that now there are perhaps three times as many major insurance centres as before World War II. This has given rise to substantial congregations of actuaries and actuarial students elsewhere than in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Norwich and other longtime insurance cities. This editor had the pleasure of visiting these newer groups as well as to the Student's Societies in London and Edinbrugh.

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

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

Description: Article On Making Ourselves Useful In Our Communities by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6. Gasoline conservation.