Description: This article contains an analysis of fractional premiums and the loss of interest and premium in the year of death. It uses Jordan's text on life contingencies to illustrate a relation between net fractional and net annual premiums and to determine if there is any loss of interest or not.

Description: Update of the activities being carried out by the Joint Risk Management Section

Description: The author describes the 29th. edition of the International Summer School, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by the Swiss Association of Actuaries.

Description: Editorial discussing competencies actuaries need to have in order for the profession to be recognized as the leading professionals in the modeling and management of financial risk.

Description: Highlights from international events of interest to actuaries.

Description: Update of the activities being carried out by the Joint Risk Management Section

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Robert H. Hoskins. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: Now that Covid and other viruses seem to be leaving us (hopefully!), what is left of the aftermath? For two locked-down years, we no longer could network face-to-face, meet with colleagues at work, do lunch or breakfast, enjoy meeting for coffee, nor attend conferences or other events to experience great speakers up close. Nor could we show up as one of those great speakers ourselves! This article explores what's next in our newly virtual world of public speaking!

Description: Announcement of this event, to be held May 6-9, 2012. The theme is 'The Actuarial Profession and Social and Economic Development'.

Description: The author calls for a re-examination of potential new avenues for growth for the actuarial profession, both in new areas and traditional areas.