Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: This article is intended to provide an introduction to microfinance and microinsurance. Microfinance began in the 1960's and 1970's as a humanitarian activity directed at the poor to provide micro loans for working capital. Microinsurance MI protects people in the low-income range against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments.

Description: Editorial discussing the tumultuous insurance industry and current financial crisis.

Description: This article provides a flavor for the wealth of statistical information provided by the Bureau Of Economic Analysis. It describes the BEA program, tells how to obtain BEA outputs, and looks at some issues BEA faces.

Description: This report is a brief summary of a symposium held in Sweden in March 1972, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish insurance companies which discusses the side effects of the development of modern chemical industry and the exposure of living organisms to a variety of chemicals in the environment. The danger of the long term effects on health are addressed.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about insurance past and present

Description: This article describes the actuarial role and opportunity in cleaning up the ...mess left by the excesses of the 1980s. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4

Description: Book Review: Energy Crisis. This book will be of interest to actuaries who routinely making long-range assumptions in their daily work with regard to future interest rates and general economic conditions.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 8 that talks about the Rule of 72.

Description: The Consumer Price Index CPU affects almost all Americans in some way. As the most widely used measure of inflation for the U.S. economy, the CPI is a key indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy.