Description: This is a panel discussion about the education of the actuary. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 55.

Description: Panelists were members of the Actuary of the Future/Future of the Actuary Task Force of the Society of Actuaries [SOA]. They discussed the topics in their report to the SOA Board of Governors that related to a description of the current profession, the demand for actuaries in the 21st Century, what actuaries will be doing in the 21st Century, and implications for the selection, education, and training of actuaries. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss the demand for actuaries in the 21st Century, what actuaries will be doing in the 21st Century, and implications for the selection, education and training of actuaries. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: The authors of the 2nd edition of the 'Actuarial Mathematics' textbook discuss the changes in the new edition. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Actuarial literature in the twenty-five years includes discussions of a well known inequality. Among the recent papers on various aspects of this classic result are those by Berin 1970, Olson 1975 and Sarason 1960. A standard method for achieving this inequality uses Jensen's inequality. This is the method used by Bowers, et al 1983. We will also employ this method in an attempt to learn about it.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting explains the need for a completely new text book with a more modern approach for life contingencies or actuarial mathematics to replace the book by Jordan. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This paper is the introduction to the Society of Actuaries 50th Anniversary Monograph, which contains significant papers published by SOA-sponsored research publications during the past fifty years. This introduction describes the selection process and provides a brief summary of each of the seven papers making up the monograph.

Description: The Actuarial Education and Research Fund is charged by its parents, the five North American actuarial organizations, with promoting useful research on actuarial topics. A list of projects as of the end of 1981. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No. 6

Description: Describes four papers that provide excellent overviews of rather different topics that should be of considerable value to practicing actuaries interested in being informed about activity on the frontier of actuarial science and still important today.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses a nontechnical introduction to Applied Statistics and Operations Research, practical applications and examples for financial reporting and asset management and an overview of the potential use in actuarial applications of these management tools. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B