Description: This article highlights the topic of ethics and professionalism, the theme adopted by President Bob Berin for the past year. From The Actuary December 1995 Volume 29, No. 10.

Description: At its March 1973 meeting, the Columbus Actuarial Club held discussion on Professional Ethics. This article summarizes the responses from members of the Club to a questionnaire concerning Professional Ethics that was presented at the meeting by Program Chairman, Tom Mitchell.

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 provides a recap of a meeting held by the Actuaries Club of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio where three topics on the relationship of consumerism and life insurance were discussed.

Description: Intoduction to an issue of The Actuary focusing on the Manhart case, in which a controversial brief was presented to the Supreme Court by the SOA and AAA.

Description: Is 'business ethics' an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp? An article discusses the notion of business ethics. The author presents a series of questions that provides a framework for managerial ethical decision making.

Description: This article discusses an increase in observed violations of examination rules, including cheating, and the consequences for getting caught.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of the article “The Statistician as Expert Witness,” by Joseph G. Van Matre and William N. Clark, from the Feb. 1976 issue of “The American Statistician.” The author of this article notes that the article he is reviewing has general application to anyone serving as an expert witness in a court of law, especially in its remarks about the ethical responsibilities of such a person and in its advice on preparing to give testimony. Written from the viewpoint of a statistician, it has equal applicability to an actuary serving as an expert witness. The SOA has reprinted this article with permission from The American Statistical Association.

Description: First of a 2 part series: The Actuarial Science Program at the University of Nebraska includes a course on Actuarial Roles and Ethics. In 1978 the students in this class sent a questionnaire to 265 persons, mostly alumni of the Program, aimed at finding out how actuaries see themselves, and to what extent ethical questions have impinged upon them. This article gives answers by 61 Fellows 60 F.S.A.'s and one F.C.A.S.

Description: This article reports comments made about Social Security actuaries in a New York Times interview by Representative Bill Archer, R. Texas, and Prof. Wilbur J. Cohen, a long-time social insurance authority and member of the National Commission on Social Security.