Description: This 1997 presentation from the 32nd Actuarial Research Conference provides background on the work of the Society of Actuaries' Research Effectiveness Task Force [RETF] and presents the current status of that work in order to set the stage for breakout sessions during which Conference attendees have an opportunity to provide input to the SOA research effectiveness review.

Description: This is the agenda for the 33rd Annual Actuarial Research Conference held at Georgia State University, August 6-8, 1998.

Description: Actuarial science is at a cross roads. Many are urging that our highly successful examination process be partially abandoned in favour of accepting university courses in a number of basic subjects. This drive is based in part on the difficulties in supporting the present system, the experience elsewhere and a misplaced confidence in the quality of the university system. This paper explores where the university system is and where it needs to go in order to adequately serve the interests of the actuarial community.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Annual Meeting held in Boston, MA on October 20-22, 1954. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1954, Vol. 6, No. 16.

Description: This is a listing of names of those serving as Officers and members of the Board of Governors for Society of Actuaries in October 1958.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Eastern Spring Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA on April 10-11, 1958.

Description: These are the minutes of the Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Washington, D.C. on March 24-25, 1960. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: These are obituaries of members of the Society of Actuaries which had passed away in from May 1962 - September 1962 and one who died in May 1961.

Description: This is a listing of the Society of Actuaries' Officers and Board of Governors as of October 1963. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 41.

Description: This section contains book reviews and summarizes recent publications: 'Rights of Creditors in Life Insurance Policies' by Schwarzschild, 'Savings Bank Life Insurance' by Johnson, 'Transferability of Public Employee Retirement Credits among Units of Government' by Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 'State and Private Pension Schemes in the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom' by Ratcliff, 'Surplus in British Life Assurance' by Cox and Storr-Best, 'Psychiatric Insurance - Financing Short-Term Ambulatory Treatment' by Avnet. Some digests are also included.