Description: Non-consequentiality is quite consequential for the claims made for the applicability of Risk Theory RT to decision problems that are not transparently tactical or wholly instrumental. On the negative side, RT is not normative or even a complete heuristic in such contexts. The author takes strong exception to the common tendencies, A to link risk theory with welfarism and versions of utilitarianism, and B to claim that with or without but especially with such linkage RT is normative in both moral and rational analysis, choice and action.

Description: This is the program for the 25th Actuarial Research Conference held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada on August 23-25, 1990. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 1.

Description: This article is about management for actuaries.

Description: Table of contents for the October 1985 Annual Meeting.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Covers the annual business meeting of the Reinsurance Section.

Description: List of workshops at the June 1986 Spring Meeting with no written record.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. The FEM Implementation Task Force discusses all future education methods currently under consideration.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2, for the 1987 Society of Actuaries Meeting in Colorado Springs.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists, discussing their own experiences in Canada and the U.S., present their views on why they chose to leave insurance companies for a consulting career. Their individual experiences include joining existing firms, as well as starting a practice as an independent consultant. The panelists discuss the tradeoffs between an insurance company career and consulting, and how to start a consulting practice, including skills needed, marketing, financing, and finding a niche. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the highlights of the IAA centennial meeting in Brussels. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.