Description: Summarizes articles in this edition of the newsletter, which focus on insurance industry transformation and how actuaries can provide assistance in the process.

Description: Article Society Of Actuaries Minority Scholarship Program by Winn, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Article Ninety Years Ago by Moorhead in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: Article Sections And Divisions Ideas by Task Force on Special Interests in The Actuary, December 1979, Volume 13, Number 10

Description: Is it possible to conduct a useful and profitable life insurance business on dogs? In Sweden, definitely Yes!

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that talks about the 1971 White House Conference on Aging. The purposes of the conference were: 1 to develop a national policy on older Americans, 2 to involve older people in helping solve their own problems, and 3 to involve national organizations in the problems of the aging.

Description: The SOA president discusses the goals of the SOA’s international strategy and describes her recent trip to Hong Kong and China to support these goals.

Description: Four experts offer their views on why the life insurance industry as we've come to know it is disappearing and what will be different about the new industry evolving, including: more competition from other financial services providers, distribution changes, better use of technology, and consolidation.

Description: A convergence of forces has obsolesced virtually every element of the traditional paradigm of the U.S. life insurance business - the products sold, who sells them, and how they are sold. This article documents the decline in life insurance ownership and sales, and emerging trends - with the market being bifurcated into service intensive vs. commodity.

Description: Reviews the book 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma,' by Richard Johns about the transition of Variable Life Insurance 'VLI' from being a high-demand product to its current state of unpopularity. The book demonstrates that VLI can perform well over time, thus providing good consumer value.