Description: An editorial with reflections on the similar issues facing Canadian and American actuaries topics including social security financing, health care and proposed new standards of practice were addressed at the Canadian Institute of Actuaries Meeting in Toronto.

Description: This article gives a brief history of the insurance industry in Switzerland and then describes the actuarial profession there today and tomorrow.

Description: This article discusses activities of a task force appointed by the Council of Presidents, an informal organization with representatives from the North American actuarial organizations. The task force has the following charge: To explore how to strengthen the actuarial profession and to consider, whether restructuring the organization of the profession would be helpful in achieving this goal.

Description: Article from The Actuary June 1990 – Volume 24, No. 6 is about reports from IACA Conference

Description: The author provides an update on the Academy of Actuaries' unsuccessful attempts to obtain a Federal Charter and the partially successful attempts to get state recognition by way of licensing or a charter.

Description: The author details the results of a questionnaire that was sent to each association, asking for input on establishing an International Federation of Actuarial Associations IFAA to promote high professional codes of conduct, effective discipline procedures, codified standards-setting bases, and comparable educational standards for actuaries worldwide.

Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.