Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the national commission on social security reform. Topics included: 1. Current financial status of the OASDI and HI programs short range and long range? 2. Options for solving the financing problems. 3. Goals of the NCSSR in solving these problems and recommendations determined to date. 4. General public understanding of the issues?

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting looks at research on agency operations and actuarial involvement.

Description: This is an editorial about the expression of professional opinion about matters outside the special professional competence of actuaries, and we aren’t urging that Article X be either amended or violated.

Description: A sample is shown of age-adjusted death rates by cause in the United States population, compiled by H.E.W.‘s National Center for Health Statistics, which appear on pages 77-84 of the T.S.A. 1978 Reports distributed November 1979.

Description: This report presents multiple book reviews with chapter by chapter detail: 'Our Yesterdays: the History of the Actuarial Profession in North America, 1809-1979' by E. J. Moorhead, 'Actuarial Mathematics' by Bowers, Gerber, Hickman, Jones and Nesbitt, 'Actuarial Projections for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program in the United States of America' by Andrews and Beekman, 'An Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance' by McCutcheon and Scott, 'On the Trail of Actuaries in Texas, 1844-1964' by Friedman and Friedman. 'From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: Summarizes the 1980 Social Security Trustees Report and Actuarial Study No. 82 on cost estimates. Also provides some analysis of these matters.

Description: This paper raises the following questions regarding mortality and underwriting: How does mortality under term insurance compare with that under permanent insurance? To what extent should large amounts of accidental death benefits be a matter of underwriting concern? What are the pros and cons of issuing triple indemnity benefits as an adjunct of life insurance policies? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: Headquarters having kindly sent the data, we are able to display the spread of new Fellows’ ages. The data is from 1981 and prior.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

Description: This 1978 session on current topics discussed the following: i. Availability and Affordability of Automobile Insurance in the 1970's 2. Status report on the Activities of the Educational Policy Committee 3. Activities of the Federal Trade Commission in the Life Insurance Cost Area 4. The Impact of Federal Tax on the Demand for our Products. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.