Description: Review of a new text on mortality measurement, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Robert W. Batten.

Description: The author summaries several reports from the IBM Symposium on operations research techniques and their future outlook 1968.

Description: This article introduces the reader to probabilistic methods used to model interactions in the financial market place. Three topics are specifically discussed, two concern modeling methods and the other concerns data analysis methods.

Description: Discusses the growing and evolving field of pricing and valuing stock option plans, and makes the case that actuaries are the professionals best qualified to serve clients in the field.

Description: In this article, the author demonstrates how to compute interest on a short term credit transaction.

Description: This article promotes the concept of long range planning for life insurance companies and notes that actuaries are well equiped for this activity.

Description: An overview of the formation of the Committee of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, initiated by the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics, in response to the need for statistical advisory committees to government agencies to promote better data collection and dissemination, contracting, forms clearance, planning, coordination, monitoring, staffing, and strengthening of agency functions.

Description: This article announces the Time Series Analysis and Actuarial Applications conferences. From The Actuary, June 1972, Vol. 6, No. 6.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 provides a recap of the Conference on Capitalization of Risk Ventures, sponsored jointly by the Graduate School of Business of the University of Wisconsin and by the Society's Committee on Research. The conference was held October 21-23, 1971 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Description: Report on the topics and speakers at the Actuarial Research Conference and Social Security Benefits, held August 31 through September 2, 1978.