Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about a pension section meeting. The moderator opened the meeting by laying down some general principles. Using market value instead of book, accounting for unrealized gains, taking cognizance of different cash flows, objectives, constraints on the manager, and other characteristics of the funds to be compared-all met with general acceptance, in this audience at least.

Description: This article from The Actuary, November 1996, Volume 30, No. 9 discusses the value of the actuary. What is our value to our publics? Is it in sheepishly agreeing with statutory impositions -pension plans are a social good that should have favored status as long as they pay their fair share - or is it in sticking to, then clarifying and explaining, our principles regardless of the penalties? Our corporate agreement with the notion that there are “individually realistic actuarial assumptions.”

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

Description: Letter From The President column for the December 2012/January 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—an excerpt from Tonya Manning’s presidential acceptance speech at the SOA 2012 Annual Meeting.

Description: A review of the book 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert J. Myers, which deals with the indexing of Social Security and government employee pension plans in the U.S., Canada, and other countries, as well as private pension plans, for which the author advocates the voluntary adoption of automatic indexing.

Description: The letter from the president provides background and updates in the development of the Society of Actuaries’ General Insurance specialty track.

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: Highlights new Professional Actuarial Study Guide entitled Distribution Costs and Compensation.

Description: Review of the process taken by the various actuarial organizations to coordinate their educational efforts.

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