Description: Discusses a method to construct an endowment plan which provides for a maturity value greater than face by treating the paid up amount as the sum insured whenever it exceeds face. The formulas for premiums, cash values and amount of insurance are provided.

Description: This article from The Actuary, November 1970, volume 4, Issue 9 is about CBMS. CBMS is the abbreviation for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences of which the Society of Actuaries is an affiliate member. The Conference Board maintains a Washington office, publishes reports and surveys concerning mathematics and mathematical education, is studying computer education in high schools and a national information system for the mathematics sciences, and is developing a Newsletter which it proposes to issue quarterly.

Description: An extension of a paper published in the 1952 Transactions by the same author, describing and classifying various funding methods for defined benefit pension plans. Followed by discussion papers submitted by several authors.

Description: This is a discussion about the papers presented at the regional meetings. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1965, Vol. 17 Pt. 1, No. 48

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: The Equation of Equilibrium by Donald C. Baillie. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This paper introduces continuing care retirement communities and outlines the major recent developments in financing procedures and regulatory requirements aimed at keeping these entities solvent. In particular, it describes the Actuarially Based Financial Management System created by the AAA and the accounting Statement of Position 90-8 promulgated by the AICPA. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995 Vol. 47

Description: Research on the elementary models of the reserve fund for the old-age, survivors and disability insurance OASDI in the United States. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol.1.

Description: This paper contains a collection of book reviews published in Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper discusses decoupling of social security - meaning that the coupling of actual benefits for those already beneficiaries and potential benefits for future beneficiaries be broken. The purposes are to describe the environment, the problem which decoupling addresses and the importance of a rational solution. The paper discusses the wage-indexing approach and the price-indexing approach. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: This Is a book review of 'Lebensversicherungsmathematik' by Hans U. Gerber. The book, written in German, is directed to younger readers who take pleasure in applied mathematics and who wish an introduction to life insurance mathematics. A well-organized and elegant introduction awaits their reading.