Description: Article Health Insurance in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Discussant comments for the 2009 Housing Wealth monograph paper, “Modigliani, Miller and Mortgages.” The paper is about the genesis of the credit crisis. The discussant finds the paper makes some interesting points but leaves too much out of the story.

Description: A summary of the Global Trends 2030 report, the fifth such report produced every four years by the National Intelligence Council. The report is based on the research and analysis of the 17 major intelligence agencies in the US. The summary covers the highlights of the report.

Description: A summary of the driving forces behind, and effects of, the historical increases and future expectations of Generic Dispensing Rates.

Description: Panel session discussion of how universal access, quality of care, and controlling health care costs are being addressed in Latin American countries.

Description: Speaker, a financial-services executive, prognosticates about the future of the financial-services industry. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Evan Borisenko looks at previous challenging environments for the life insurance industry, such as the a period of severe stagnation in the 1930s, the increased inflation in the 1980s and a catastrophe like the Spanish influenza after the World War I. Evan explains that "while each event described above challenged the life insurance industry in a unique way, each event stimulated an equally unique solution." The article concludes that we "fight to repeat history" in a way that we as actuaries should be able to propose unique solutions with when faced with crisis in the future.

Description: Discussion of the introduction of the Euro and its impact on European cooperation and its impact on the ability of the United States and its currency to dominate the world's political and financial system.

Description: Three corporate leaders prognosticate about the future of the financial-services industry and of U.S. society in general. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: While some people proclaim the imminent triumph of renewable energy, this article argues that fossil fuels will continue to be part of the energy mix.