Description: Article from The Actuary October 1989 – Volume 23, No. 9 describing how the Professional Actuarial Specialty Guides Subcommittee is overseeing the formation of a series of actuarial specialty guides. The goal is to prepare guides for all major actuarial specialties. Each will include introductory material and a “roadmap” that will organize the actuarial specialty into topics, followed by brief descriptions of carefully selected papers, articles and books.

Description: This newsletter is privileged to have a corps of readers who take the trouble to send us references to actuaries that they spot in the public press. Some of these have just entertainment value, but others are useful in showing us what people think we are and do. May the flow continue!

Description: This article is about the critical role of actuaries in IT projects.

Description: discussion of the naming of Patrick l. Brokett, Ph.D., director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of Texas at Austin as the third holder of the Thomas P. Bowles Jr. Chair of Actuarial Science.

Description: This discussion focuses on Group Accident and Health Insurance, particularly, is there a solution to continually revising rates, what are the advantages and disadvantages of rates that vary by area, and on what size cases is the loss ratio with the previous carrier sought? From Transactions of Society 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: Message from the Chairperson by Gregory R. Childs from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, November 1999, Issue No. 2.

Description: Notice of families with multiple generations among the SOA membership.

Description: Article Ninety Years Ago by Moorhead in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1994 – Volume 28, No. 8 that features news of retirees and their activities - experiences and new opportunities, anecdotes and observations.

Description: This is an article about actuarial news from London from the March 1981 issue.