Description: The Society of Actuaries' managing director of actuarial research provided an overview of research activities including the funding behind research projects and the staff/volunteers involved with research.

Description: A reader asks why, of 29 selected essays on Visions for the Future of the U.S. Health Care System, only one was authored by a woman.

Description: President Smith's speech focuses on the need for actuaries to be better spokepeople and advocates for good sound improvement in social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Health Care reform.

Description: Limitations in actual practice as a health care actuary due to lack of standards, lack of internal data, too much external data, lack of control. Issue No. 38.

Description: This presentation at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about the importance of good customer service and how taking care of the customer leads to a good bottom line.

Description: The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the research mission of the SOA, its inner workings, major efforts, funding and its unique qualities.

Description: Feature article discussing the Morris Report and its influence on U.K. actuaries and development of the Financial Reporting Council FRC. This includes the Board for Actuarial Standards BAS, Professional Oversight Board POB, and the Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board AADB.

Description: This 1980 session explored how to think about the future and offered thoughts that the turbulence of the times increases risks and uncertainties, longer lead times are needed for implementation, today's actions determine the future, and companies can influence their own futures.

Description: The article describes the recent implementation of a new research strategy for the SOA. It includes excerpts from the strategy and explains how it impacts health research.

Description: Discussion of inflation: Causes and impacts and what the roles of actuaries might be to manage it.