Description: This is a summary of topics discussed at the 1996 Bowles Symposium: “The Old Age Crisis: Actuarial Opportunities,” September 26-27, 1996, at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Description: This is a discussion of the preliminary report of the committee on valuation and related topics. The committee elected to commence its work by examining the fundamental principles of valuation. The traditional issues in the valuation of an insurance enterprise appear within this general framework. The objective of the committee's work is to measure the balance between assets and liabilities in today's volatile economy.

Description: On Capitol Hill in Washington and in almost every academic, professional, or trade association meeting that relates to life insurance, sessions are being devoted to cost comparisons. It is clear that this intensive activity could have a significant impact on the marketing of life insurance.

Description: The author notes the decline in the study of compound interest and the effect of computers on the subject.

Description: Article from The Actuary February 1968 – volume 2 - Issue 2 summarizing a special session from the 1967 SOA Annual Meeting titled, "Mortality Estimation and Risk Theory Aspects of Mortality." The four papers presented are outlined.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1969, Volume 3, Issue 3, highlights the program of actuarial science at the University of Iowa.

Description: This article is a recap of the Actuarial Research Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1983.

Description: This is a discussion of papers presented at eariler regional meetings. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 1, No. 60

Description: This article poses the question, why doesn't the teaching of life contingencies start with the premise that the rate of investment income is a random process in a similar manner to the random nature of the time until death? The article suggests some methods for doing so.

Description: In this paper, the author has systematically developed multiple decrement theory from the probabilistic viewpoint and, in doing so, has clarified connections between actuarial and statistical theory. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 45.