Description: Article that discusses the structure of and concern for using social security numbers as a means of identification.

Description: Feature article that defines strategic risk management (SRM) and discusses ways to design and optimize a company’s SRM process.

Description: Book review: Value of Pensions in Divorce by Marvin Snyder is described as a 'comprehensive treatise' geared to the non-actuary.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 10 provides a recap of The Society's Committee on Research and the Department of Statistics of the University of Waterloo jointly sponsored seventh annual Research Conferences. The topic, Time Series Analysis, covered the more recent advances in statistical analysis of time series, particularly in economic data.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 answers the question- What are adjusted earnings?

Description: The only indices set out in the Annual Statement are 1 the ratio of net investment income to mean assets in Exhibit 2, and 2 those ratios in Schedule H and the Accident and Health Policy Experience Exhibit the Exhibit. The impropriety of the Schedule H and Exhibit ratios as meaningful indicators is discussed below. It is assumed in the discussion that statutory accounting principles and considerations are operative, and the superiority of indices based on generally accepted accounting or economic value principles is not advanced. The statutory indices adjusted and unadjusted are used and referred to by regulators, industry groups, trade journals, and others. Thus, within the context of statutory accounting, the indices should be properly determined.

Description: This article discusses funding flat-benefit pensions and suggests steps to address what will likely be a future underfunded plan.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 3 talks about a hypothetical life insurance company's introduction of a new policy whereby the increased death benefits after the premium paying period are used to justify smaller cash values and reserves than would be required under a comparable policy which endowed for its cash value at the end of the premium paying period.

Description: A discussion of the changes to the method of grading omitted and erroneous answers on some of the multiple choice Society of Actuaries exams and a discussion as to the equivalence of the methods in determining passing candidates

Description: This article discusses the benefits of the recent advances in technology. The author cautions that while these advances create demands that call for yet more advances, we need to think longer term to avoid future side effects like Y2K.