Description: Discusses letter by Ray M. Peterson, F.S.A. to the New York Times re Social Security.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 7 that is extracted from E. J. Moorhead's address to the Actuaries Club of Philadelphia in April 1985.

Description: This article is a brief review of the Society of Actuaries 1981 monograph ‘Adverse Deviation,’ by John C. Wooddy et. al. The author of this review notes that the monograph describes the approach - devised by the Committee on Theory of Risk - to ‘the problem of providing appropriately for the risks of adverse deviation in a GAAP valuation under the specifications of the ‘Audit Guide for Stock Life Insurance Companies.’

Description: This paper sets forth a method of estimating the present value of the cost of future nonvested commissions. It also provides a method of producing an agents' survival table. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: When it comes to speaking for their members, the Society and Academy are in quite different positions. Society utterances are subject to the limitations of Article X of our Constitution the Academy can speak through its officers, Board and committee heads as its leaders see fit Well aware that this freedom poses responsibilities, the Academy has formed a “Listening Post” so that its members can get into the act.

Description: This 1978 session on current topics discussed the following: i. Availability and Affordability of Automobile Insurance in the 1970's 2. Status report on the Activities of the Educational Policy Committee 3. Activities of the Federal Trade Commission in the Life Insurance Cost Area 4. The Impact of Federal Tax on the Demand for our Products. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: This is an informal discussion on legislative effects on compensation and compensation modifications and the issues resulting from the requirement to integrate agents' pension plans into Social Security. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: A synopsis of the findings of a study group of the institute and the Faculty of Actuaries, which addresses three types of actuarial notation.

Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.