Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 19, Number 7 - September 1985

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.

Description: Discusses changes that the Experience Committees of the Society are making to their processes to improve timeliness and quality of data.

Description: Discusses highlights of the recent survey sent to all 9,435 active Canadian and U.S. members of the SOA.

Description: Describes changes to the detailed funding rules for defined benefit pension plans found in the regulations of the various federal and provincial acts in Canada.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 21, Number 9 - November 1987

Description: This article describes the activities and results of an SOA Task Force on Expansion of Mortality and Morbidity Statistics which was formed to review the mortality and morbidity research undertaken and the statistics published outside the recognized actuarial organizations.

Description: This article describes activities of the Board of Governors to strengthen the role of research within the SOA. The Board actions include approving two additional professional staff positions for the Research Department and including $150,000 in a Research Development Fund to serve as seed money for research projects.

Description: The actuarial profession was singled out for an unexpected distinction last month when The Jobs Rated Almanac announced that actuaries have the best jobs in the U.S. The book, published by World Almanac, was launched with so much fanfare that actuaries were in the front-page headlines of such newspapers as USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times.