Description: This article is little more than a teaser excerpted from a three-page statement of policy on research adopted by the SOA Executive Committee in September 1981.

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

Description: Discusses the Future Education Methods, FEM, White Paper.

Description: The International Actuarial Association IAA has authorized organization of a new section called The Financial Section AFIR. In American jargon, the focus is on investments. With the internationalization of financial markets and operations, the increasing sophistication of financial techniques and products, and the deregulation of financial markets, actuarial methods are becoming more appropriate as tools for management decision making.

Description: This is a speech by SOA President Howard Bolnick in which he discusses a new avenue for developing membership in the Society and the actuarial profession. This approach, which is called the 'Big Tent' vision for the profession, considers inviting qualified professionals into the ranks of the profession and the Society.

Description: A collection of brief and generally unrelated provisions that are commonly found in a reinsurance agreement. Part of a series of monographs published under the heading of Life Treaty Provisions.

Description: State and local government employees participating in Social Security number about eight million and represent slightly under 10% of the total group covered by Social Security. More of these groups are coming into the system than are leaving, but some are leaving and the numbers are growing.

Description: The session is about maximizing cost efficiency of mainframe computers used at life insurance companies. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: Summary of the Insurance Market Behavior and Health Insurance Seminar Held in Beijing. The purpose of the seminar was to introduce the special characteristics of health insurance markets and health insurance to actuaries and insurance executives in countries where health insurance products are in their formative stages.

Description: Excerpts from the Presidential Address of Emory McClintock, delivered at the meeting of the Actuarial Society of America in 1897. Words he might give to any expert young mathematician who might present himself as having actuarial work in view.