Description: This document is a listing of sessions from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York, for which no written record was made, with the names of those who served as leaders. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: Article from The Actuary magazine, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that discusses the response of the Education and Examination Committee to Professor Batten's challenge in the wisdom of current trends in the Society's educational program, stating that these syllabus changes should be considered evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

Description: This document is a listing of workshops and other sessions from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, for which no written record was made, with the names of those who served as leaders. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This document is a listing of workshops and other sessions from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs, for which no written record was made, with the names of those who served as leaders. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: A list of all sessions without written record from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. Includes the name of each session and the chair/co-chair or other session leaders. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 1.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, which are excerpts from the author's presidential address to the Southeastern Actuaries Club in November 1982 where Professor Batten demonstrates a lack of approval of the new education syllabus and outlines his concerns. In particular, the author is concerned that the education syllabus is moving too far in the direction of theoretical statistical techniques at the expense of teaching practical subjects such a demography and life contingencies.

Description: Part 3 of a 3 part series on Strategic Planning Issues. This document contains material from a speech given on June 17, 1997, in Singapore by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference.

Description: Part 1 of a 2-part series featuring interviews with four former SmallCo section chairs. The interviews shared their view of the value of SmallCo and of holding a leadership role. They also discussed the challenges of leading this section and gave advice for new section council members.

Description: This paper considers the ERM problem as an adaptation and stability problem of complex system development. The basic approach of W. Ross Ashby and its development by S. Beer are applied. The author advances the cybernetic functional feedback model as applied to the integrated ERM structural mechanism. Such formulation of the ERM problems seems promising to correctly detail and structurally integrate the various issues, including operational and financial systems linkage, key adaptation parameter of time and its different periods, optimal activity and others.

Description: At this luncheon session, the winning papers from the 1990 Society of Actuaries Health Section's research paper competition are presented. The two winning papers are: 1. 'The Natural Limitations of Health Care Trend: A Paper Concerned with Methodologies of Determining Trend Assumptions for Retiree Health Costs' by Jeffrey P. Petertil, and 2. 'Modeling Flexible Benefit Selection' by Charles S. Fuhrer and Arnold F. Shapiro. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.