Description: Article from The Actuary December 1995 Volume 29, No. 10 Highlights the year in review

Description: This editorial by the Editor of the Actuary discusses the shrinkage of volunteers contributing to the SOA, and discusses the importance of volunteers to the SOA and the benefits of such volunteering to our societal well-being.

Description: The author attempts to weave together biological and environmental explanations into the mathematical approaches developed over the past two centuries so as to, in the words of two earlier authors from the actuarial profession, reground the relationship of actuarial science with cellular biology and gerontology. Also examined is the extent to which increasing wealth and higher standards of education and health contribute to happiness.

Description: A review of a speech given by E. J. Moorhead. Mr. Moorhead described what he saw as life insurance industry missed opportunities for increased transparency which would be resolved by Congress and public outcry. Interesting historical perspective which could be used a reminder for today.

Description: This is a report of the activities and goals of the Administration And Finance Committee of the Society along with the financial report of the SOA presented July 31,1988.

Description: Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with their counterparts at Oxford University, probing the future, have explored proton decay to estimate that the universe will last for many years, by which time there will be no heat, no light, no matter, no anything time itself will have ceased to exist. This helpful information puts a new cast on such notions as “infinity” and “forever.”

Description: This presentation from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting covers AIDS, where the disease is now, how the forecasts compare to what has actually happened and the current impact on pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: The purpose of this report, prepared by the Society of Actuaries' Education and Examination Committee, is to provide the Board of Governors and the Education Policy Committee with a strategic basis for actuarial education and a philosophical foundation for education policy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This issue of the newsletter will address the future of retirement plans.

Description: This paper traces the background of the surgeon general's 1979 report on smoking, highlights its principle conclusions with respect to mortality, and summarizes its findings regarding socioeconomic and demographic differences between smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.