Description: This is a panel discussion on accreditation of actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2, No. 44

Description: This article provides an introduction to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 and looks at how the Medicare prescription drug plan will affect the commercial market as well as, what PDPs will offer for benefits and if any will offer supplemental benefits. From Health Section News, March 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: This article introduces IT DevOps to actuaries and how it is applicable to them to improve their modeling efforts and make them more efficient.

Description: A review of changes in the last two years with respect to investing, geopolitical risks and the markets.

Description: This article provides an analysis of Value at Risk VAR and its advantages and limitations as a tool for assessing and quantifying market risk. The article originally appeared in the August 1997 issue of Financial Engineering News and is reprinted with permission.

Description: Feature article discussing the uses and advantages of Twitter.

Description: This paper addresses the questions of expectations from actuarial graduates and actuarial capabilities that they should have upon graduation.

Description: The persistent failure of the actuarial profession to cast a suitable definition of can be accounted for by the varied roles actuaries fulfill. This article reviews the extraordinary changes that have taken place in the work and the institutions actuaries serve. in the 25 year existence of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article is a review and discussion of the 1976 “Report of the Consultant Panel on Social Security to the United States Congressional Research Service.” The report contains the results of another government-initiated study of the OASDI system which puts forth a second solution to a problem first publicly identified by the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, a problem which has come to be known as the “decoupling issue.” Because the solution proposed by the actuaries and economists making up this consultant panel is significantly different from that of the Advisory Council, this report has inspired some degree of friendly debate among actuaries and others interested in the technicalities of the OASDI benefit formula. Panel members are Peter A. Diamond, James C. Hickman, Ernest J. Moorhead, and William C. Hsiao, Chairman.

Description: The purpose of this session is to review and discuss the principles and guidelines published and/or under consideration within the accounting and the actuarial professions regarding the restatement of GAAP financial of a life company acquired in a transaction to be accounted for as a purchase transaction under SPB 016. Our purpose is also to review with you some of the specific approaches that have been taken, and the problems that have developed, in implementing purchase-GAAP in practice. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.