Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. In this session panelists and attendees share successful ideas on communicating technical ideas to a nontechnical audience. Topics include: 1. Technical writing techniques. 2. Communicating with senior management. 3. Communicating with the public.

Description: Software vendors participating in the A Comparative Analysis of Claims–Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment study were invited to submit comments on the study. In this document, Ingenix explains their contribution to the study's source data, and raises some questions about methodolgy.

Description: A review of Life Insurance Accounting, a reference work by twenty three authors under the direction of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association, IASA.

Description: This is the index to papers and discussions published in Volume 10 of Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958.

Description: The editorial emphasizes the importance of actuaries learning to excel at communication, and questions continuing education requirements that place maximums on the number of credits that can be earned for education in this area.

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Description: Second article in a series on effective writing: focuses on writing for Chinese readers if English; and on writing for English readers if Chinese.

Description: A study of disability experience examines cost burden and degree of disability, and how these measures vary across different subpopulations. This article summarizes a presentation given at the Society of Actuaries’ Living to 100: Survival to Advanced Ages International Symposium held on Jan. 7–9, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. An abstract of the author's paper was presented in the September 2008 issue of Long-Term Care News.

Description: Discusses the new operating procedures approved by the Board of Governors for the Committee on Papers. The goal of the new procedures is to improve the quality of the papers published in the Transactions.