Description: This paper by Harry M. Sarason, presented at the Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held March 24-25, 1960 in Washington, D.C., and the ensuing discussion, considers how to dispel, in layman’s terms, the misconception that “an annuity for the expectation of life is the same as the average value of the life annuity.” From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: Are health insurance benefits contributing to the inflation in medical costs? What types of improvements in policy benefits and policy provisions would have a beneficial effect? how practical are reform proposals From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970 Vol. 22 Pt. 2 No. 62 AB

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘A New Remarriage Table,’ by A. M. Niessen, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to Mr. Niessen’s paper, which is based on his studies of widows’ remarriage rates.

Description: This paper presents blended 1980 CSO and Commissioners Extended Term CET Smoker and Nonsmoker mortality tables using the same methodology and pivotal age as used in the composite blended tables and for the same percentages of male to total, viz., 80, 60, 50, 40, and 20 percent. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: This is the list of committee members for the various Committees on Mortality and Morbidity.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1949: 1. 'Giant Brains or Machines That Think' by Edmund Caliis Berkeley, and 2. 'Statistics, An Intermediate Textbook, Volume I' by N. L. Johnson and H. Tetley. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This is the table of contents from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1954, Vol. 6.

Description: This is the Index to Volume 12 of Transactions of Society of Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This is the table of contents for papers and articles published in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 2, No. 47 AB.

Description: This is the table of contents for papers and articles published in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19, Pt. 1, No. 53 AB.