Description: This article is about the past tendency of actuaries to play bridge and the linkages between bridge and actuarial exams.

Description: Traditional discounting is hazardous to corporate health unless, as this paper demonstrates, it is turned on its head and insurance managers adopt the methods of prudent bankers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22 , No. 7. This articles explores the dangers posed by many guaranteed-return life insurance and annuity products.

Description: This paper will use a sample example to examine the relationship between the pricing objective of ROI and the corporate profit measure of ROE. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: I read with interest the article by Sheri Lynn Levine in the November 1988 issue of The Fibonacci Quarterly on ‘Suppose More Rabbits Are Born.’ Levine,like Fibonacci, assumes that rabbits never die and made additional assumptions regarding rates of reproduction.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about proposed revisions of the Standard Valuation Law. The changes from the insurance company and regulator perspective are discussed. The concept of the valuation actuary is also discussed.

Description: This paper begins with an investigation of the conceptual profit model known as Anderson's formula, then it compares Anderson's formula with two alternative profit formulas and discusses some applications and limitations of each method. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about regulatory aspects , administrative aspects, financial reporting issues, Canadian products.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the organizational and practical implications of segregating the General Account including how to allocate existing assets by product line, organizational changes required, regulatory implications and accounting and systems consideratons. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This paper discusses three methods for the amortization of deferred acquisition expenses, DAC and the results when actual experience differs significantly from that assumed. The methods include a static approach with prescheduled amortization, a dynamic technique called the expense reserve factor method, and an aggregate or accumulated premium revenue method. A discussion follows the paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.