Description: Arthur Pedoe Obituary: Summary of many essays Mr. Pedoe published on a variety of topics dealing with the actuarial profession

Description: The author laments the fact that the current Speaker's Kit of the SOA gives no credit of achievements to actuaries since 1875.

Description: Advocates promoting the savings aspects of cash value life insurance products.

Description: This article draws attention to the competition for the Boleslaw Monic Prize. Prizes totalling Dutch florins 12,500, roughly US$4,500 are being offered for the three best papers submitted on: “The significance of inflation for the non-life insurance industry, with particular reference to the relationship between direct insurance and reinsurance the problems facing management and a suggested methodology for their solution.”

Description: This is a panel discussion about H.R. 10 pension plans, i.e., tax deferred retirement savings plans for the owners of an unincorporated business and its employees. The following questions are addressed: To what extent is coverage under H.R. 10 being provided under individual policies and under group contracts? What problems are presented in each approach? If special plans are used, what provisions must be included? If normal contracts are used, what modifications or endorsements must be made? What plans are generally used? If split-funding is not used with normal contracts, how are increases in contributions handled? To what extent are trust or custodial accounts being used? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: “We all understand the statement that the probability of ruin for a young man's family is 1 in 1000. Most if not all would agree that he should insure against this risk. . . . ‘We all know why the risk is insurable even if we do not say so explicitly because there are a large number of broadly similar risks and the law of averages can he relied on. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No.8

Description: Discusses FIASCO”, the newsletter published in London that performs somewhat the same function for members of the Institute of Actuaries as The Actuary undertakes for Society members.

Description: This article contains responses from five actuaries to a request for an explanation of how the 15% figure is calculated in the contention by unisex-pricing advocates that 15% of women live longer than men, but 100% of women are penalized.

Description: This article discusses the previous age 25 year old requirement for Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Among actuarial newsletters these days, we have one that's new one that's using a computer, one that sports a new editor and one that has both a new editor and an increased issue frequency.