Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: A review of 'Life Contingencies' by Alistair Neill, to be used as a textbook for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries examinations.

Description: This newsletter’s nominee for the most spectacular American at last summer’s International Congress is Prof. William S. Jewel1 of the University of California, Berkeley, who, as Mr. Hazelcorn reports in this issue, introduced the Congress subject, Generalized Models of the Insurance Business. Prof. Jewel encouraged actuaries to be receptive of, and tolerant towards, new methods, models, and paradigms.

Description: Discussion of the changes involved with the Society of Actuaries education redesign, including a summary of the responses to a Society of Actuaries member survey dealing with the redesign of the basic education and examination system.

Description: Article on the need for continuing education for actuaries

Description: This article is about Stanley B. Tulin's actuarial career and lessons he has learned regarding what leads to a successful actuarial career.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: In this era of high interest rates, business life insurance funded by individual level-premium life policies has become popular, even to the point of undertaking to compete with group insurance plans. The author discusses tests that a sound and adequate proposal has been made.

Description: A discussion of the professional development component of the Society of Actuaries basic education system redesign and how it is linked to the planned continuing education changes for experienced actuaries.