Description: A discussion of the similarities and differences in social security benefit design, indexation, and financing in Canada, the United States and other countries.

Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables as the base, for the 897 Fellows of the two predecessor bodies to the present Society observed to anniversaries in 1985. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: The President brings attention to the readers that the responsibility of the actuarial profession at large is to the future and the public.

Description: The approach of the year 2000 creates a millennial fascination which causes man to ponder his past, to assess his present, and to peer into his future. This study of the actuarial profession looks upon those design-steering aspects which can lead to a greater future. Although this work adopts the standpoint of a life company actuary, it views the entirety of the profession. All actuaries are bound up in essentially the same future. This study may have special interest to a young person contemplating the actuarial profession as a career. Consequently, an effort is made to consider the subject over the projected career of such a person- roughly to the year 2020. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt.1, No. 76.

Description: At the end of 1963 health insurance claim reserves and liabilities held by companies on this continent totaled well over one billion dollars. This paper seeks to study the problems involved in calculating these reserves and liabilities and to describe the methods in use. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 44 AB.

Description: Author reply to Jay Olshansky’s discussion of “Health Expectancy” paper and reply from authors Faye Albert, John Bragg and Jason Brooks.

Description: This paper presents a different approach to measuring Health Expectancy, especially as it relates to the elderly population. This new actuarial approach is described and numerous examples are given.

Description: This paper introduces continuing care retirement communities and outlines the major recent developments in financing procedures and regulatory requirements aimed at keeping these entities solvent. In particular, it describes the Actuarially Based Financial Management System created by the AAA and the accounting Statement of Position 90-8 promulgated by the AICPA. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995 Vol. 47

Description: This is a discussion of indexed coverages for individual contracts. It covers such topics as the history of indexed coverage in the U.S. and Canada and other countries and the possibilities for the ideal fully-indexed permanent life insurance and disability income plans.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discusses a study by the Center for Futures Research 'CFR' at the University of California and possible users of CFR and similar studies in the strategic planning process.