Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.

Description: The actuarial profession continues to grow in Asia with help from the Society of Actuaries. In September 1998, the SOA board voted to focus the SOA’s efforts in Asia by renaming the Asia Committee the China Region Committee [CRC] and forming the Southeast Asia Committee [SEAC]. This article describes president-elect, Howard J. Bolnick's Sept. 23-28, 1998 visit to Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, where he and a delegation met with members of these committees to identify their needs and discuss strategies to accomplish their mandates. A secondary purpose was to learn more about China to help the SOA more effectively participate in International Actuarial Association [IAA] activities.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: Independent brokerage agencies have been the alternative distribution system of choice by life insurers using methods other than the career agency system to bring products to market.

Description: In this editorial, the author draws on the past to briefly address the uncertainties of the future. From The Actuary Vol. 33, No. 8.

Description: In this article the author encourages actuaries to shop for books on Amazon by way of www.contingencies.org. By doing so 'Contingencies' receives a commission to help fund minority scholarships. From: The Actuary, October 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 08.

Description: This article is a book review of History Of Company's Collapse about the failure of Execute Life. From The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 9

Description: Article is about a task for for continuing education seminars

Description: This is article covers a session from the Annual Meeting about financial analysis and corporate strategy. It discusses: evaluation of external factors that affect the long-run outlook for the company, assessment of strategic opportunities and development of long-range action plans. 1975 Record Vol.1 No. 4

Description: This session is about the U. S. Social Security System undergoing a period of critical reappraisal with the costs and future of the system in question, and about how the actuarial profession should be involved in the process.

Description: Table of contents for the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1 in Vancouver on May 15-16, 1989.