Description: This article discusses how the refereeing process for Transactions articles, which has been in place for some time, is being changed.

Description: This is a review of the book, 'From Actuarius to Actuary' by Robert B. Mitchell who was selected by The 25th Anniversary Committee of the Society of Actuaries to prepare a popular history of the actuarial profession. This volume should be read by actuaries. They will be charmed by its style and informed by its content.

Description: This is an excerpt of Gathings Stewart's lighthearted verse delivered at the close of the Society of Actuaries' 1970 Denver meeting.

Description: The Centennial Celebration brought the dawn of a new era in the way actuarial meetings are handled, said Thomas P Bowles, head of the meeting's steering committee. It set a new standard for meetings to come. Bowles enthusiasm was fueled by the overwhelmingly positive audience reaction to several innovations at the Washington, D.C., celebration.

Description: This is the December 2011 cover of The Actuarial magazine displaying the featured articles inside: How to Handle ORSA, The Actuarial Profession in India, and The SOA's Competency Framework

Description: The SOA Member and Candidate Survey is conducted every three years. This article highlights key findings.

Description: Recollections of life in the actuarial profession, in Canada and the U.S., during the 1950s.

Description: This is a lighthearted poem about the state of the Society of Actuaries in 1971.

Description: The article notes, as explained in Norman Solomon’s paper, TSA XV, 167, so-called windfall appropriations are required annually to finance dual benefits to which certain railroad workers became eligible under the Railroad Retirement Act in consequence of pre-1975 employment that entitled them to both Railroad Retirement and Social Security benefits. The author then notes that the Office of Management and Budget has arbitrarily reduced revised appropriations, and that “the actuarial profession should take a strong stand against this by-passing of actuarial determinations.”

Description: Presidential address at the 1996 annual meeting. The president encourages actuaries to broaden their scope and skills, develop the attributes he discusses and make a plan to redesign yourself.