Description: This section provides multiple book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Topics include aging, retirement and pension plans, investing, demography, mergers and acquisitions, variable annuities and other insurance and mathmatical subjects. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.

Description: This paper was presented at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. This paper provides a detailed description of this type of group life insurance, which the author defines as a plan which provides for periodic employee contributions to purchase paid up insurance, term insurance provided by the employer for the scheduled amount less the paid up insurance, and which usually allows for cash surrender after termination of employment. The author provides a brief history, and detail on plan design including premiums and participating features, disability benefits, cash value provisions, coverage schedules, employee contribution schedules, underwriting, and valuation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This article provides short biographies of the following 18 authors who have works appearing in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol. 44: William A. Bailey, Bradley P. Carlin, Jacques F. Carriere, Sarah L. M. Christiansen, Charles S. Fuhrer, Stephen B. Gwin, Bertram M. Kestenbaum, Kenneth A. LaSorella, John C. Maynard, Robert J. Myers, William A. Phillips, Peter W. Plumley, Colin M. Ramsay, Robert R. Reitano, Edward L. Robbins, Bruce D. Schobel, Arnold F. Shapiro, and James A. Tilley.

Description: This is the Index to Volume 13, Part 2 of Transactions of Society of Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: The authors set forth a generalized model describing the application of current law [1976 NAIC model Standard Valuation Law and Standard Nonforfeiture Law] to products of the universal life type. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: This is the Table of Contents for Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1987-1990: 1. 'Pension Age in a Changing Society' by Patrick Carroll, 2. 'Life Insurance Mathematics' by Hans U. Gerber, 3. 'A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750' by Anders Hald, 4. 'Medical Risks: Trends in Mortality by Age and Time Elapsed' by Edward A. Lew, 5. 'Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits' by Robert J. McKay, 6. 'Canadian Insurance Practices' by Franklin Reynolds, 7. 'On the Shoulders of Giants' edited by Lynn Arthur Steen, 8. 'The Value of Pensions in Divorce: What It Is and How to Use It' by Marvin Snyder, 9. 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Edward P. Brunner and Paul E. Heacock, 10. 'Duration Analysis: Managing Interest Rate Risk' by G.O. Bierwag, and 11. 'Actuarial Evidence: Valuing Past and Future Income' by Donald R. Anderson. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1949: 1. 'Giant Brains or Machines That Think' by Edmund Caliis Berkeley, and 2. 'Statistics, An Intermediate Textbook, Volume I' by N. L. Johnson and H. Tetley. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This is the table of contents for papers and articles published in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 2, No. 56 AB.

Description: This is the table of contents for papers and articles published in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 35 AB.