Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: This article discusses how insurance regulation needed to evolve to meet the need for more understandable policy forms. This article was written before the Flesch Reading Ease test was in common use.

Description: Article Socrates Introduces Plato To Nether World Of Editing by Tomlinson in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Description of the job of a stockbroker in Britain and what an actuary can bring to the trade.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 10 a recap of a speech given at the annual meeting of the Actuaries Club of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio by Ralph Waldo on the future of life insurance marketing.

Description: This article names the keynote speaker for the 1995 Annual Meeting, who is George F. Will, a nationally renowned journalist.

Description: Harding's opinion on an actuary's role in management. Abridged version of a paper presented to the Younger Actuaries Section of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries on March 28, 1967.

Description: This article is about how an office can become more efficient using 10 collective time management ideas instituted in the actuarial division of Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Description: A brief review of reading recommendations from the The Actuary’s contributing editors: 1. IFRS Exposure Draft on Insurance Contracts. 2. The Nuts and Bolts of Credit Scores. 3. Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - How American Healthcare Killed My Father, 4. New Basel III Rules are Announced. 5. Is Law School a Losing Game?

Description: In this article, the author discusses private pension policy recommendations from the first interim report of the President’s Commission on Pension Policy, released in May 1980, noting that it contains several recommendations similar to reforms strongly urged upon actuaries three years ago Record, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 902 by Karen Ferguson, Director of the Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C. The author of this article discusses recommendations, including political views, on topics including mandatory pension coverage, vesting, and survivor protection.