Description: Review of Professor Belth's book 'Life Insurance: A Consumer Handbook'.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers the paramount importance of professionalism and also provides a cautionary tale about its disappearance from corporate life. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 110gs.

Description: The Fellowship Admissions Course FAC will make its debut in September 1990. It will allow candidates to explore professional ethics issues in depth, along with real-world problems and their relationship to the exam syllabus, and then to gain perspective on those issues from the views and insights of others.

Description: This article is about not compromising your principles when pressured to do so from internal or external forces.

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: A hypothetical workplace dilemma in which readers are invited to submit their comments and suggested solutions.

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: An article on a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving the updating of assumptions which resulted in a change in EGPs and DAC amortization.

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.