Description: Announcement of the SOA Board of Governors' approval of John E. O'Connor as new SOA Exective Director.

Description: In the midst of the activity and glitter of Times Square, one group of actuaries devoted an entire SOA meeting one morning to developing their communication knowledge and skills. The workshop titled, “Actuaries can Communicate,” was designed to identify ways to communicate more effectively as an actuary, to develop individual communication competence and to practice communication skills central to the work of an actuary. From The Stepping Stone, April 2005, Issue No. 18.

Description: SOA LTCI Conference 2004: One Marketer’s Perspective by Mike Muench from Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2004, Issue No. 11.

Description: This article addresses the scope of reserve valuation rules that compute or estimate reserves “on the basis of recognized mortality or morbidity tables, and assumed rates of interest.”

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: This document is a list of acronyms used by the SOA.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: A review of 'Life Contingencies' by Alistair Neill, to be used as a textbook for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries examinations.

Description: A review of the book Public and Private Pensions in Canada: An Economic Analysis by J. E. Pesando and S. A. Rea, Jr.

Description: This article is a brief overview of what the Health Actuarial Research Initiative, HARI, is and what the participants in HARI will be doing. HARI is a project formed by the Society of Actuaries that will develop actuarial research studying changes in health care systems.