Description: This article discusses the difficulties in how to deflate overheated economies, and at the same time to stimulate productivity and maintain high employment. It also describes the results of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's monetary and fiscal policies to achieve these goals.

Description: This is an article about the struggles and successes of female actuaries working in the United Kingdom.

Description: In this article the SOA president discusses how the SOA serves its members all around the globe and how it has global actuarial partnerships.

Description: Review of Entering the Twenty-First Century, prepared by the Council on Environmental Quality and .the Department of State. A severe picture of the world at the turn of the century is presented.

Description: This article is about the challenging role of the actuary in business and how Canada's resolution to this challenge can benefit the profession as a whole.

Description: This article is about the Society is becoming significantly more active on the international scene. Specifically, the activities of ambassadorial visits to Asia and Australia were described.

Description: This article discusses the three main taxation proposals affecting holders of life insurance and deferred annuity policies announced on Friday, November 13, 1981 by the Federal Finance Minister in Canada. The main proposals are 1 taxation of accrued investment income on life and annuity policies, 2 changes in the adjusted cost basis at disposition of policies and 3 treatment of life insurance policies not registered as retirement savings plans.

Description: Continuing a line which started in Vienna as far back as 1927, COINTRA an acronym for “Cooperation Internationale pour les Assurances des Risclues Aggraves” held its 14th conference in Stockholm from 9th to 12th June, 1981. Some 110 representatives from life assurance and reassurance companies, established in more than a dozen countries, were in attendance for the purpose of exchanging information and reviewing developments in substandard life assurance.

Description: This article gives an overview of how countries all over the world are addressing the issue social security financing and its rapidly growing costs.

Description: The United States has received severe negative press the last several years regarding its massive U.S. federal government debt, currently estimated as of April 2007 at about $8.9 trillion. This article looks at the U.S. debt relative to other countries and also explores the impact on U.S. investments.