Description: This discussion has a look at valuation techniques best suited for Electronic Data Processing equipment and if any basic changes has resulted since the introduction of Electronic Data Processing. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: These discussions at the Jacksonville and Chicago SOA 1962 Regional Meetings covered topics ranging from sales of health insurance by life agents to requirements for production clubs to products for the tax sheltered annuity market.

Description: This general discussion looks at the results derived from the 15th International Congress of Actuaries and the legislations adopted in Canada and proposed in the U.S. giving favorable tax treatment to pension contributions by the self-employed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: This is a discussion of recent experience for companies of first year lapses, surrenders at policy durations with appreciable cash values, total voluntary terminations and factors which contribute to current lapses and surrenders. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion on annuities and settlement options focuses on: A. Revisions made recently in the interest and mortality bases for annuity contracts and retirement income policies and for settlement options embodied in life insurance policies. B. The extent to which the use of settlement options might be justified for payees other than the insured and beneficiaries who are natural persons. C. The practical problems arising in connection with: 1 Requests for elaborate or complicated settlements 2 Liberal settlement option guarantees in outstanding policies

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses several topics, including the impact on juvenile insurance of guaranteed insurability riders, family policies, and others, the impact on sales to females due to the introduction of lower costs, policies allowing conversion o monthly life income, use of age last birthday, and revised policy formats.

Description: This discussion looks at steps insurance companies take to regain a greater share of the available savings dollars, developing trends toward a separation of the insurance and investment elements of life insurance contracts, as wells a the feasibility to make endowment and other investment-type contracts more attractive by reduction or redistribution of first year expenses.

Description: This is a discussion about the new examination syllabus. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: This paper reviews the first twenty years of the Society of Actuaries since its founding in 1949. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This is a greatly condensed summary of the panel discussion of Robert B. Mitchell's book, 'From Actuarius to Actuary, The Growth of a Dynamic Profession in Canada and the United States,' and is intended merely to convey some idea of the interesting colloquy which took place. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.