Description: The recent Forecast 2000 forum on the environment held in Toronto dealt with such issues as increased taxes and higher insurance premiums to cover costs of natural disasters.

Description: This article is about the passing of Christopher Wright, a great -grandson of the noted 19th century American actuary Elizur Wright.

Description: Article Confidentiality Of Federal Statistics by Johansen in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 is an extract from a recently discovered Dead Sea Scroll regarding language to be included in a prospectus to provide potential investors with an adequate basis for judging the offering.

Description: Developing a formal strategy to guide the SOA’s activities with respect to public policy-related topics is underway. Recent experience shows that non-partisan contributions through the SOA’s research are already adding value to important public policy discussions.

Description: Discusses a report prepared by Frank Kleiler for the US Department of Labor on a survey he conducted of the Canadian pension situation. Includes both the private and public pension systems.

Description: This is an editorial about the expression of professional opinion about matters outside the special professional competence of actuaries, and we aren’t urging that Article X be either amended or violated.

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 reports comments made about Social Security actuaries in a New York Times interview by Representative Bill Archer, R. Texas, and Prof. Wilbur J. Cohen, a long-time social insurance authority and member of the National Commission on Social Security.