Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual meeting is about global dynamic - definition, effect on the actuarial profession, actuaries and insurers response to it.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the Society of Actuaries Meeting held May 18-19, 1978 in Dearborn, Michigan. The panelists discuss the implications of the Privacy Study Commission's recommendations, legislative developments, the Academy Task Force Report on Risk Classification, the question of whether the profession should we take an amicus curiae position in risk classification court cases, and whether traditional state anti-discrimination laws need to be made more specific. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 4, No. 2.

Description: This article discusses in detail how the Year in Review evolved and its significance to the SOA membership. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This session at the SOA 1981 New York Regional Meeting examines the practice of life insurance risk classification, societal changes in their view of the practice and the industry's response to those pressures.

Description: This article describes some implications of increasing government intervention in the industry, such as the potential to eliminate the industry's ability to classify risk due to anti-discrimination laws and pressure to expand social 'insurance' programs

Description: This article discusses the redesign of the magazine, The Actuary, and it requests that readers fill in the questionnaire on the new changes.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on the professional issues facing the actuary working in the international environment. Topics to be discussed include licensing, education, code of conduct, and cultural differences. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Presenters discuss worldwide issues and trends in which actuaries may be involved and the implications of these issues and trends on the actuarial profession worldwide. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: In this editorial, the author asserts that spring and summer are the times insurance companies should participate in the management process that reaffirms or revises their strategic plan. It is a time to reset one’s long-term aim.