Description: This discussion focuses on trends in the insurance industry and factors influencing the future course of the life insurance industry. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: Discussion of the preliminary findings of the Society of Actuaries Ad Hoc Committee on a New Build and Blood Pressure Study

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about the International Statistical Institute. The Society of Actuaries is one of 14 organizations sponsoring the 38th Session of the International Statistical Institute, to be held at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C., Aug. 10-20, 1971. The scientific program will include papers and discussions from 19 countries, and while much of the program is likely to interest only the more statistically minded actuaries, there are many subjects in which the statistically ignorant artuary might be interested.

Description: The purpose of the present paper is to propose a family of sex-year-of-birth tables which may be used in place of The Annuity Table for 1940 with Projection. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: Discussion of how operations research can address some fo the problems in insurance field and home office operations and applications to other types of problems. Can be applied to increasing efficiency of projects and processes.

Description: This section consists of the following reports, Activities of the Subcommittee on Variable Contracts of the ALC-LIAA Actuarial Committee, Alternate Routes, and Recent Mortality under Individual Immediate Annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, No. 61.

Description: This paper examines the effects of selection procedures used in epidemiologic studies and suggests that similar procedures could be employed to select standard ordinary insurance risks at the older ages. The experience in this paper was developed from a prospective epidemiologic investigation launched by the American Cancer Society in the fall of 1959 to learn how personal characteristics, living styles, and environmental conditions influence health and longevity.

Description: Article discusses the conference on mathematical simulation models at Duke University on Oct. 31, 1968.

Description: This article lists the following topics of current interest that were discussed at the 19th International Congress of Actuaries held in Oslo, Norway from June 19 to June 24, 1972: 1. Life and pension insurance with variable sums insured or variable premiums, 2. Methods of forecasting the development of an insurance company during the next ten years, 3. Private pension schemes and social insurance, and 4. Problems connected with the actuarial treatment of the risk process of an insurance company. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 2D, No. 70.