Description: The August/September 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A review of the book, Problem Solving in Life Contingencies, by Brian Bambrough, F.S.A., 1979. This book helps a student solve life contingencies problems

Description: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.

Description: This article explores compound and simple interest and the accumulation function for the case when time t is a noninteger value.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 5, that is a guest editorial regarding actuaries in the community and how closely integrated and intertwined are the concepts of professionalism and community service.

Description: This article describes how eligible actuaries can apply for research grants during 1984 sponsored by the Actuarial Education and Research Fund AERF.

Description: This article includes a table that illustrates the time elapsed for new Fellows who qualified in the May and November 1983 examinations, from the date each fellow wrote his/her first exam.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.