Description: Reports the comments of Chris Bone, Chair of the SOA's Retirement Systems Research Committee, on the pension funding changes tucked away in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Congress passed in December.

Description: Article from The Actuary April 1993 – Volume 27, No. 4 is about ask an actuary button campaign and comments on expanding actuaries into other risk analysis tasks.

Description: This article notes activities leading up to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Society of Actuaries and highlights the first sponsors of the occasion.

Description: This article summarizes the work of two work groups of the American Academy of Actuaries, one focused on Medical Savings Accounts and one focused on proposed changes to Medicare.

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.

Description: This article provides an update to the sponsors of and events planned for the Society of Actuaries 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, Oct. 17-20, 1999 in San Francisco.

Description: An article in which the author discusses Generation X and the growing need to market and communicate with this group of individuals. The subset of entry level actuaries among Generation X are found to be the best and brightest.

Description: This article is about a consumer education program sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Foundation, “On the edge of change: Putting Social Security back in balance” and plans for a similar project dealing with Medicare in the future.

Description: This article discusses the White Paper entitled 'A Partnership between the Academic Community and the Actuarial Profession,' which provides a vision in the year 2000 of what the academic/actuarial profession partnership could be in the future. From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: Through a public relations effort launched first by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries [CIA] and then the SOA, two actuaries representing the profession capitalized on their abilities to analyze future contingent events in the 1998 baseball season’s home run race. This article describes the efforts of Mel Norton, FCIA and John Dewan, FSA to predict who would break Roger Maris’ 1961 record of 61 home runs in one season.