Description: The Fellowship Admission Course FAC is one of the proposals contained in the White Paper on Future Education Methods for the Actuarial Profession, circulated by the E&E Committee in early 1987. FEM proposals were developed with three primary objectives.

Description: This was a list of workshops sessions which were held at the 1978 Chicago Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries with the names of those who served as Workshop Chairmen and Co-Chairmen.

Description: View the participants from the ARCH 2013.1 proceedings.

Description: Portability of pension benefits allows an employee to maintain pension benefits as he leaves one company and joins another. Advocates of portability point approvingly to the way Social Security - a portable pension plan - handles employee mobility. In their view, the private pension system would be fairer to participants and close a gap in pension coverage if it had more portability.

Description: This article provides a summary of the content of the sessions at the recent The 2001 Bowles Symposium at Georgia State University. As the author notes, “The Coming Revolution in Insurance Accounting symposium” focused on the development and practical considerations of a new international accounting standard, generally referred to as fair value accounting.

Description: Chairperson’s column describing activities the Product Development section has undertaken to date.

Description: The recent Forecast 2000 forum on the environment held in Toronto dealt with such issues as increased taxes and higher insurance premiums to cover costs of natural disasters.

Description: Sixty-six actuarial students participated in the Society’s first two Intensive Seminars for examination credit during the weeks of August 14 and 21. The seminars were held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A total of 65 students completed the course, with 62 passing.

Description: This article notes that some actuarial educators observe that Courses 3 and 4 in the SOA’s new education and examination system will demand more study time from students than the former courses did and, therefore, will call for more help and understanding from the students’ employers.

Description: Using the copula package in the R computing language for ERM modeling.