Description: Complete issue of the October/November 2014 The Actuary magazine

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that provides an update from the Education and Examination Committee.

Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1972 – Volume 6, No. 9 that outlines the guidelines for appointing members to committees.

Description: Article discusses the how the older population has been treated throughout history with low regard and often as a burden on society.

Description: Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking about social security.

Description: According to the book 'The Limits to Growth' by Dennis L. Meadows et al., exponential population growth is the looming cause of five major trends of global concern- accelerating industrialization, increasing population pressure, rapid disappearance of unused arable land, depletion of non-renewable resources, and a deteriorating environment. Can disaster be avoided? The author of this article suggests that since actuaries are self-styled futurists, using our mathematical skills to define, analyze, and solve complex business and social problems, we should not be left behind on this one.

Description: The Pacific Insurance Conference is an organization strongly supported by actuaries. At present all its officers are members of the Society in fact, of its 23 member Executive Committee, 12 are actuaries, 10 of these being members of the Society. The Conference exists for the purpose of helping to spread ideas about the conduct of life and health insurance through the countries in the Pacific Rim area. Its sixth biennial meeting was held this year at Hotel Mt. Fuji, Lake Yamanaka, 80 miles north of Tokyo. This event was attended by 143 delegates and 32 spouses of these, 26 delegates and 13 spouses were from U.S.A. and Canada.

Description: Since 1966, the Society of Actuaries has been an affiliate of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. This article gives an overview of what the Conference Board is, what it does.

Description: This is a review of the book, 'From Actuarius to Actuary' by Robert B. Mitchell who was selected by The 25th Anniversary Committee of the Society of Actuaries to prepare a popular history of the actuarial profession. This volume should be read by actuaries. They will be charmed by its style and informed by its content.

Description: This article discusses the impact on the financial statements of changing from Statutory Accounting to GAAP Accounting and the under-reporting of long-term earning power by insurance companies because of the AICPA technique of handling the transition.