Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 6 talks about the Exposure Draft of Valuation Principles for Life Insurance Companies.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 6 discusses how the growth and evolution of the actuarial profession in recent years has created an increase interest in continuing education and professional development.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1986, Volume 20, No. 4 that highlights the formation of the Pension Section. Early 1983 saw the start of the formation of the Society's Pension Section. A 25-member organizing committee polled the membership of the Society to determine their level of interest. An overwhelming 1,000 members spurred the Board of Governors to authorize the Section.

Description: Discusses two different issues of current concern in the UK: Transfer Values and Personal Pensions.

Description: Highlights the recent changes to Social Security and Medicare from enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Also highlights some changes voted in by one of the houses but not by both, and therefore not enacted.

Description: After the 1986 tax-reform legislation, SPWL currently enjoys a tax treatment preferential to many other financial products. The author suggests that this distinction may not last long.

Description: This article considers considers how the assumptions and statistical methods used to analyze investments are likely to change as a result of the events of Black Monday, October 19, 1987.

Description: This article discusses the idea of reorganizing our profession using the university as a model. The key to this structure is to recognize the distinction between being certified as qualified to practice and acquiring the education that permits that qualification.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article encourages the proliferation of pre-retirement counseling programs and provides the author's views of the components of a successful program.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article explores the differences and the commonalities of UK vs US actuarial practice with an emphasis on pensions.