Description: Announcement of the 21st International Congress of Actuaries, and directions for submitting registration forms.

Description: A review of a book by a former Commissioner of Social Security, in which he shares his thoughts on what Social Security is, the new law, the financing, the benefits, the types of employment covered, the benefit amounts, the retirement test, and several subsidiary topics.

Description: A report on the SOA Board's Executive Committee's discussions and and resolutions in response to the Manhart case.

Description: Discusses FIASCO”, the newsletter published in London that performs somewhat the same function for members of the Institute of Actuaries as The Actuary undertakes for Society members.

Description: Discussion of the Society of Actuaries' first consumer education program, dealing with Social Security funding and the contributors to the program. There is a hint of a discussion of the results of a survey of the value of the program, but the sentence ends in mid stream. There is also a discussion that there will be a similar education program directed at Medicare in the future but there is no discussion of this future program in the article.

Description: The letter from the president introduces the new SOA logo and brand refresh.

Description: Comments on intriguing and amusing newspaper items which touch on technical fields.

Description: This is an article detailing the notation controversy from a European perspective.

Description: Department article that describes how the SOA is extending its e-Learning system with a set of new social learning tools.

Description: Book review of Steve Vernon’s Money for Life, Turn your IRA and 401(k) into a Lifetime Retirement Paycheck