Description: FIASCO has reported from London that the Institute President and at least thre other members of its 35-member governing body are left-handed, a proportion said to be above their national average, though not necessarily significantly so.

Description: Asks readers to consider having SOA's Board impose discipline on special committees entrusted with matters requiring prompt resolution.

Description: This article gives an overview and recommendation of the book, Protecting Against Inflation - And Maximizing Yield by John M. Bragg. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 4

Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables as the base, for the 897 Fellows of the two predecessor bodies to the present Society observed to anniversaries in 1985. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This is an editorial about what to charge retirees for meetings. In general, the Society’s treatment of its retired members is enlightened and humane. The dues waiver system had been adopted long ago. The new question of the meeting charge for retirees has now been raised.

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: The minority program reached its goal for 1981. Our thanks to five companies and fifteen individual actuaries who saw the appeal in our December 1981 issue and responded with cheeks totalling $3,935 for the Minority Recruiting Program.

Description: This paper looks at the value of informal discussions at Society meetings and if the value of these discussions can be increased. presentation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: In the fall of 1983, the Actuaries’ Club of the Southwest set an example that other clubs and writers would do well to follow. Its president proposed as one of its projects a “history of the Club and actuarial practices in the Southwest.” Would that other laborers in the historical vineyard could be half as fortunate!

Description: This panel discussion adresses the responsibility of the actuary as he or she serves various publics such as the actuary's employer, government bodies, labor unions, industry and the professional groups of which the actuary is a member. From Transactions of Society of Society of Actuaries 1971, Vol. 23, Pt. 2D, No. 65.