Description: This is Article No. 3 in a series summarizing the proposal by Adam, Boehm and thirteen other European actuaries to the 19th International Congress concerning new actuarial notation. This was the simplified version of what they had presented four years earlier.

Description: This is Article No. 2 in a series about a current reform proposal about actuarial notation reform. Current reform negotiations have their origins in a paper presented to the 1968 International Congress of Actuaries by Boehm and Reichel in collaboration with nine other German-speaking actuaries.

Description: In October 1971, a committee of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia proposed a new actuarial notation, built on the proposal of Boehm, Reichel et al, but more practical. This article highlights the proposed notation.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various aspects of life insurance accounting including the Mandatory Securities Valuation Reserve, accounting adjustments when registering with the SEC, GAAP for non-admitted assets, reserve conservatism, and tax liabilities.

Description: This panel discussion was session number 3 at the 2004 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting, held in San Antonio, TX June 14-15. The panelists explored the problems between actuaries and IT people, how neither either understands the other's perspective, with frustrating results for both sides. But the speakers feel that, “with some tolerance and understanding, both can profit from the other's approach.” A theme in the discussion was that better communication will improve understanding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the Canadian Institute of Actuaries' disability morbidity study to update the 1964 CDT and explains the techniques used to interpolate incidence rates from the 1964 CDT.

Description: This panel discussion, from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion on development as of 1982 in the education and exam system. Topics included: 1. Goals, purposes and objectives of actuarial examination and education. 2. Critique of the current system. 3. Role of the academic community in actuarial education. 4. Interrelationship of the Society's E&E structure with that of other actuarial bodies. 5. Plans and future directions.

Description: This is a letter from F.G. Reynolds, University of Waterloo, to Mr. C. Smith, Cologne Life Reinsurance Co. As an assignment the author had the students in his Risk Theory class extend the method of Trobliger to three levels of risk. Both the data of Trobliger and the data of Thyrion, which can be found on pages 27 and 16 of Seal's Stochastic Theory of a Risk Business, were fitted.

Description: This is article No. 8 in a series that discusses the second notation proposal from Australia and New Zealand. In March 1976, a subcommittee of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and New Zealand put forward another actuarial notation proposal.

Description: A serious problem facing the actuary when his or her company converts to on line transactions processing is that of how to minimize human errors. This paper explains how the availability of the various reserve and cash value factor files in an on line environment permit better checking than has been possible in the past.