Description: This article provides comments about questions raised and discussed in the March and May 1981 issues of The Actuary regarding the relative merits of a U.S. Government Actuary post.

Description: An article in which the author's mother challenges the 1941 CSO Mortality Tables Omega and wins.

Description: The National Center for Health Statistics announces the publication of the following volumes

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: Provides the results of two surveys that found actuaries to be in agreement with CEOs of life insurance companies on the top 2 key strategic issues facing the industry: distribution channel productivity and increased competition.

Description: This article is about Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow for the American Academy of Actuaries, filling in for U.S. President Bill Clinton at a December 1998 White House Conference on Social Security. Gebhardtsbauer moderated a one-and-a-half-hour discussion that was carried live on the nationwide C-SPAN 2 network.

Description: Editor's summary of items in this issue of The Actuary.

Description: In this increasingly global economy, actuaries frequently find themselves in situations involving cross-border practice. This is particularly true for U.S. and Canadian actuaries. This article is about recent agreements and discussions among the U.S. actuarial organizations and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries [CIA] that clarify how the various actuarial standards apply to cross-border activities.

Description: Table featured in the "Mortality Experience of FSAs, class of 1975" article.