Description: There are challenges against the professional world today, particularly in North America and to some extent in the English-speaking Western world elsewhere. Generally speaking, the public takes the view that a profession is somewhat in the age of ancient Druids and [that these] secret societies and mythical groups [are] somehow seeking and getting occasionally, if not too frequently, privileges and preferences over the balance of the population.

Description: An article from The Actuary that highlights Stephen C. Goss, chief actuary at the Social Security Administration, who was recently awarded the National Academy of Social Insurance's NASI first ever Robert M. Ball Award for outstanding achievements in social insurance. According to NASI, Goss exemplifies 'public service' at its very best. The Actuary asked Goss if he could give a little more of himself and answer some questions about his career, which, of course, he did.

Description: The article notes, as explained in Norman Solomon’s paper, TSA XV, 167, so-called windfall appropriations are required annually to finance dual benefits to which certain railroad workers became eligible under the Railroad Retirement Act in consequence of pre-1975 employment that entitled them to both Railroad Retirement and Social Security benefits. The author then notes that the Office of Management and Budget has arbitrarily reduced revised appropriations, and that “the actuarial profession should take a strong stand against this by-passing of actuarial determinations.”

Description: The article discusses the actuaries role regarding the recommendations made by the National Commission on Social Security Reform. That responsibility is to spread the word. To see that citizens within our reach know what the recommendations are and the need for Congress to promptly enact them into legistlation.

Description: An actuary, Jim Toole, speaks out on racial disparities in infant mortality.

Description: Article The Actuary Revealed by Dinney in The Actuary, May 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: President Smith's speech focuses on the need for actuaries to be better spokepeople and advocates for good sound improvement in social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Health Care reform.

Description: This article is about Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow for the American Academy of Actuaries, filling in for U.S. President Bill Clinton at a December 1998 White House Conference on Social Security. Gebhardtsbauer moderated a one-and-a-half-hour discussion that was carried live on the nationwide C-SPAN 2 network.

Description: The recent Forecast 2000 forum on the environment held in Toronto dealt with such issues as increased taxes and higher insurance premiums to cover costs of natural disasters.

Description: This article discusses the lack of knowledge people in general have about actuaries and the actuarial profession and the unfair and inaccurate stereotypes that are associated with it.