Description: In this session 93PD of the 1998 New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss three levels of protection available to bank depositors and insurance purchasers in the United States. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: The panel discusses the cost feasibility of a large scale computer being shared by a group of smaller companies, applications found for medium sized computers and the extent companies are using deck size electronic computers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This article describes activities of the Board of Governors to strengthen the role of research within the SOA. The Board actions include approving two additional professional staff positions for the Research Department and including $150,000 in a Research Development Fund to serve as seed money for research projects.

Description: The author describes immunization with a simple illustration requiring only high school algebra rather than the ordinary and stochastic calculus that has been applied to this subject. It illustrates that if you have three invesmtents with different durations, we can take some combination of any two of them to get the same duration as the third.

Description: Brief note that the report of this task force appears as “The Risk of Asset Default,” by Irwin T. Vanderhoof, Faye Albert, Aaron Tennenbein, and Ralph Verni, in Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Volume XL1 1989, pages 547-582, and is not reprinted here.

Description: In session 142OF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss key existing research projects as well as suggestions for new projects. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting focuses on non-traditional employment for actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The session discussed the C-3 risk, not the C-1 risk in the title. It explored the question: For testing purposes, how does one create the investment scenarios to which you expose your assets and liabilities?

Description: This is a discussion about indiviual life insurance dividends. Discussed are net cost formula, interest rate assumption, and special areas such as substandard and guaranteed issue. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: In this article, the author exhorts the actuarial community to move toward a more research-oriented culture, much like that which exists in the UK.