Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 3 talks about a hypothetical life insurance company's introduction of a new policy whereby the increased death benefits after the premium paying period are used to justify smaller cash values and reserves than would be required under a comparable policy which endowed for its cash value at the end of the premium paying period.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1994 – Volume 28, No. 5 in which the author looks at the original estimates compared the actual estimates in regards to End Stage Renal Disease ESRD program.

Description: Review of Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System. The authors found it to be a concise well written report discussing a number of issues facing all pensions in an inflationary economy. Both the title and the dull format in the usual Government Printing Office style would seem to insure this document's instantaneous consignment to dead storage. However, behind the cover of this small pamphlet is a concise, well written report discussing-a-number of the issues facing not only federal pension programs at the present time, but all pensions in an inflationary economy. For example, several of the 11 pages devoted to the main report discuss the implications of static assumptions ignoring inflation as opposed to dynamic assumptions including inflation.

Description: An article that takes a look at the actuaries original estimates for Medicare's hospital insurance program relative to actual figures.

Description: Report on the topics and speakers at the Actuarial Research Conference and Social Security Benefits, held August 31 through September 2, 1978.

Description: Discusses the relationship between true surplus and valuation surplus upon termination of a policy, using formulas.

Description: This article summarizes the speech by Lloyd A. Woolridge on pension vs. profit sharing, insured vs. uninsured and individual vs. group in regards to retirement income plans.

Description: The editorial shares observations and lessons learned from the process of implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Description: Summary of the non-routine business transacted at meetings of the Executive Committee of the Society of Actuaries on Dec. 13, 1979 and the Board of Governors on Jan. 24, 1980

Description: Discusses determining the internal rate of return on short sales of investments.