Description: The New York State Insurance Department has appointed a committee to redraft and modernize its agent compensation law to account for new forms of insurance. The New York law, which has had a major effect on agent compensation since the early 1900s protects consumers from excessive expenses and generally has worked well.

Description: The Life Practice Area seeks input on strategic issues including the timeliness of experience reports, the increasing levels of regulation, defending risk classification, ant the viability of the actuarial profession.

Description: Three 1983 U.S. Supreme Court pension-and-welfare-related opinions, viz. a. Shaw, b. Construction Laborers, and c. Morrison-Knudsen, merit at least passing attention by actuaries even though their impact upon the actuary’s work may vary from slight to significant.

Description: A summary of the report of the Canadian Royal Commission on Taxation. According to the author, the report conceives the tax structure to be a proper tool of government in far-reaching policies of income redistribution and management of the economy.

Description: The author provides an update on the Academy of Actuaries' unsuccessful attempts to obtain a Federal Charter and the partially successful attempts to get state recognition by way of licensing or a charter.

Description: This article summarizes some of the proposals of the Carter Commission on taxation in Canada.

Description: Book review of The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 269 Setting National Priorities, the 1975 Budget. Federal spending now accounts for at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. It is the single most important expression of America's priorities. The material in the book is a fertile source of material for the needed debate.

Description: This article discusses certain recommendations of the Carter Commission, which calls for far-reaching reorganization of federal taxation in Canada.

Description: This article provides a summary of the February 1967 Canadian Institute of Actuaries discussion on the 1966 amendment to the Old Age Security Act and its effects on Canada and Quebec pension plans.

Description: This article discusses the Society of Actuaries Foundation's first consumer education program and how it is filling a gap by providing information on Social Security.