Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: These are the business meeting minutes from four regional meetings held in 1975.

Description: This section contains the business meeting minutes from four regional meetings held in 1976.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Highlights objectives of the IFAA, the relationship with its 43 member actuarial associations, and current issues under consideration, including: international accounting standards for retirement benefits, other employee benefit costs, and a possible new global education syllabus for actuaries after 2005.

Description: These are the business meeting minutes from four regional meetings held in 1978.

Description: E-courses available from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: The SOA president emphasizes the importance of actuaries maintaining their level of professionalism by always striving to inform and prepare the decision maker with all the possibilities, not just the quick answers or the minimum level of disclosure.

Description: In this paper we will describe how richer actuarial programs can be provided if a number of schools with smaller programs combine resources by forming a regional cooperative or consortium. We have already formed our own consortium, the Southwest Actuarial Education and Research Consortium SWAERC. The strategies proposed here have already been used in SWAERC, and we will illustrate each of them by describing our own experience with it.

Description: Continuing with the tradition of establishing craft guilds in London, the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, was approved on September 18, 1979. The organization has a charitable function, namely. to set aside monies under a covenant to be used for encouragement of actuarial research and education.

Description: Discusses efforts and accomplishments of first 3 years of the Financial Reporting Section and new undertakings.