Description: This article discusses what the U.S. Census Bureau has to offer. The information includes surveys on population, housing, income, expenditures, crime and health. In addition, it includes censuses and surveys of most U.S. businesses.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 about Ulpian's Table, a table of life expectancies dating from about 220 A.D.

Description: This article discusses the valuation and funding of the military retirement system under Public Law 98-94, signed September 24, 1983.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial staff of the U.S. General Accounting Office GAO, providing a bit of history, the structure of the GAO, and explaining that GAO actuaries act as consultants to all the operating divisions of the GAO on matters involving pensions, insurance, and related issues. The author also revisits an earlier proposal for a Government Actuary, a higher level position responsible for all actuarial work of the Executive branch, as well as the GAO, and asks whether the actuarial profession should again support such a proposal.

Description: Reflecting Congressional desire for unified reports on all Federal retirement systems, Public Law 95-595, signed by the President in October 1978, requires annual reports from these systems similar to the ERISA reports from private sector plans. The author, as Chief Actuary of the DoD, discusses the first report produced.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article explores the differences and the commonalities of UK vs US actuarial practice with an emphasis on pensions.

Description: This is an editorial warning about the escalating costs of Medicare as outlined in the 1983 Annual Report of The Board of Trustees of The Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. The editorial ends with a question asking what the actuarial profession, and its members individually, ought to be doing that they aren’t already doing?

Description: table with article The Actuary Magazine–April/May 2005 A Strategic Analysis of the US Life Insurance Industry Part 1 Customers

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This article solicits comments on a proposal for a periodic survey to obtain needed data on retirement, health, and economics among retirement-age persons sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.