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 section presents a book review of, "Society of Actuaries' Textbook on Life Contingencies" by Chester Wallace Jordan. Also included are summaries of other recent publications. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1952, Vol. 4, No. 10.

Description: The author, noting the inadequacy of traditional ‘rules of thumb’ used for profit objectives, demonstrates that, assuming a stock life insurance company’s objective is to maximize its current value, the profit objective can be expressed as maximizing ‘the present value of book profits per unit of limiting constraint.’ Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that recent advances in calculating equipment make possible producing graduations much more elaborate than any done previously. The paper confines itself to the problem of graduating a single column of rates, such as an ultimate column, using a Whittaker-Henderson B graduation of the fourth order. The author provides a detailed description of the process with significant mathematical theory.

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: Book reviews of 'Final Answers,' 'Life Insurance, a Non-Life Approach,' 'Practical Risk Theory for Actuaries,' 'A Problem-Solving Approach to Pension Funding and Valuation,' and 'Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century.' From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

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

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.