Description: Rising drug—and, to a lesser extent, health care—costs in Canada are creating long-term challenges for not only governments and employers across Canada but for individuals as well, with no easy answers.

Description: Letter to the editor of The Actuary in regard to Social Security trust funds.

Description: The author explores research and concerns about sustainability, and how actuaries can contribute to the discussion.

Description: A synopsis of the findings of a study group of the institute and the Faculty of Actuaries, which addresses three types of actuarial notation.

Description: This article highlights the newly formed Actuarial Diversity Task Force and its importance to the actuarial profession.

Description: The scientific form of insurance was made possible by the emergence of probability in the 15th century. The first probability problem appeared in a book entitled Srunma de Arithmetica, Geornetrla, Proportloni et Probabilta 1494, written by Fra Luca Paccioli, a Franciscan monk.

Description: This article derives a recursion formula for determining life contingent annuity payments, and explains how it lends itself to use in computer programs.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: The work of the Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks—including focus groups and Risks and Process of Retirement Surveys—offers important insights into when, how and why people retire.

Description: Book Review of How to Cope with the Developing Financial Crisis by Ashby Bladen, McGraw Hill, New York, 1979