Description: This article is a review of Howard E. Winklevoss and Alwyn V. Powell's Continuing Care Retirement Communities: An Empirical, Financial and Legal Analysis. The book discusses the actuarial aspects of a CCRC, especially the establishment of fee structures.

Description: Feature article about the effects of obesity on life expectancy and how actuaries will be affected.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, that discusses rising health care costs and the challenge it is to actuaries to study the numerous causes and to devise practical means for modifying their effects.

Description: This report is a brief summary of a symposium held in Sweden in March 1972, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish insurance companies which discusses the side effects of the development of modern chemical industry and the exposure of living organisms to a variety of chemicals in the environment. The danger of the long term effects on health are addressed.

Description: This article chroncles the law suit that Blue Cross of Minnesota filed against all of the large tobacco companies for fraud and the extra cost incurred by all Blue Cross members. The case was settled for $469 million.

Description: This article is a review of another article that is an exposition of the mathematical methods used in the Framingham Study.

Description: This article announces the following reports on AIDS available from The Canadian Institute of Actuaries: 1. Memorandum covering AIDS from the Chairman of the Committee on Life Insurance Company Financial Reporting, 2. 1988 Guidance Notes for Valuation Actuaries, Report of the Subcommittee on Valuation, Task Force on AIDS, 3. First Report of the Subcommittee on Modeling, Task Force on AIDS, and 4. Second Report of the Subcommittee on Modeling, Task Force on AIDS, An Analysis of USA Data.

Description: Letters to the editor about the feature article “The Dementia Epidemic: Are We Ready?” that ran in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of The Actuary.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8 that discusses how increasingly keen competition for small-group medical business has caused many carriers to drastically alter their approaches to renewal rating of all-group business.