Description: Summarization of address at the SOA annual meeting, October 1979, by William W. Whitson, Ph.D., of the Congressional Research Service. He conducted a study on the prospects of socio-political change, and concluded there could be some disturbing discontinuities.

Description: This note describes a mortality investigation procedure in which the expected mortality applicable to each new policy for a period of about three years after issue is estimated by use of persistency factors. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: “We all understand the statement that the probability of ruin for a young man's family is 1 in 1000. Most if not all would agree that he should insure against this risk. . . . ‘We all know why the risk is insurable even if we do not say so explicitly because there are a large number of broadly similar risks and the law of averages can he relied on. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No.8

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 10, that is an editorial written by the editor of The Actuary that highlights that in recent years many U.K. insurance companies have moved away from London so that now there are perhaps three times as many major insurance centres as before World War II. This has given rise to substantial congregations of actuaries and actuarial students elsewhere than in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Norwich and other longtime insurance cities. This editor had the pleasure of visiting these newer groups as well as to the Student's Societies in London and Edinbrugh.

Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables as the base, for the 897 Fellows of the two predecessor bodies to the present Society observed to anniversaries in 1985. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This is a discussion about whether the Society's spring programs are meeting member needs and desires, and about discussion rules.

Description: An article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no.17, issue no. 3 that discusses the math exam prizewinners and the ultimate impact this prize has the actuarial profession in terms of growth.

Description: The Pacific Insurance Conference is an organization strongly supported by actuaries. At present all its officers are members of the Society in fact, of its 23 member Executive Committee, 12 are actuaries, 10 of these being members of the Society. The Conference exists for the purpose of helping to spread ideas about the conduct of life and health insurance through the countries in the Pacific Rim area. Its sixth biennial meeting was held this year at Hotel Mt. Fuji, Lake Yamanaka, 80 miles north of Tokyo. This event was attended by 143 delegates and 32 spouses of these, 26 delegates and 13 spouses were from U.S.A. and Canada.

Description: This article describes the “Arithmeter”, invented by Elizur Wright, to expedite the calculations made necessary by the legislation that he himself had drafted that required the Massachusetts Insurance Department to compute net level premium reserves on all policies in force. One of the few Arithmeters in existence was donated to, and is now in the possession of, the SOA.

Description: This discussion addresses the following questions about health insurance maternity benefits: 1. What has been the claim, lapse, and expense experience on hospital-medical policies with maternity benefits issued to young married couples? 2. To what extent have hospital-medical policies been introduced with reduced maternity benefits during the early policy years or with no maternity benefits? 3. What other measures are being used to provide maternity benefits on a self-sustaining basis? 4. Are these measures effective? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2