Description: Brief discussion about the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section [EAS], its activities, webcasts, newsletter, and Vendor Referral Program.

Description: Notable events at the California Spring Meeting: keynote speaker President Ford and luncheon speaker Ian Holland, former SOA President and CEO Lincoln National Corp.

Description: This article is about the concept of the Sentinel Effect SE—that selfselection process which directs unhealthy insurance applicants to apply for coverage at amounts where testing is not done, thereby minimizing the chances that their afflictions will be discovered.

Description: With the possible exception of full faith and credit debts of the United States, every loan carries some risk with it regardless of the borrower, and this risk varies depending on the creditworthiness of the person or institution that is supposed to repay the debt. Bearing that risk requires some sort of capital, both as a legal requirement and as evidence of good sense in lending, but recently we seem to have forgotten the basic relationship between a loan and the capital associated with it. The lesson of the current debacle is, or certainly ought to be, that the risk inherent in a financial transaction cannot be made to go away by the mere act of repackaging that transaction and renaming it.

Description: The specific aim of the proposed research is to both theoretically and empirically catalog the different ways one could expect consumption in a household after retirement to be different than consumption before retirement. The long term goal of this research is to help better inform best practices for financial planners, professionals and educators in the construction of financially prudent retirement plans. This decomposition can be separated generally into three main paradigms. The first two of these paradigms concern how preferences affect consumption before and during retirement, while the third is concerned with the financial constraints retirement brings.

Description: This article contains a listing of the publications of the National Center for Health Statistics. Copies of any of the listed publications can be obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, Maryland. In ordering, the series number and the number within the series should be given.

Description: A total of 13 papers have been accepted for publication in Volume 41 of the Transactions. These profiles will be a periodic feature in The Actuary. The following biographical sketches briefly describe authors of eight of the papers. The remaining authors will be profiled in the December Actuary.

Description: This is an informal discussion on legislative effects on compensation and compensation modifications and the issues resulting from the requirement to integrate agents' pension plans into Social Security. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey conducted in August of 2008 on foreign travel underwriting practices of reinsurance companies.

Description: This panel discussion at the SOA 1968 Annual Meeting is about managing, motivating and directing technical and professional personnel.