Description: This article reports the deaths of five members of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: In this article, the author reflects on a time he was coding a death into the computer.

Description: This article gives an historical description of calculating and tabulating equipment used by, and is some cases developed by, actuaries in their work.

Description: A U.S actuary, after a one-year assignment as a consulting actuary in the UK, compares the actuarial profession and the insurance industry in the two countries.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 3 that discusses the organization of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1985, Volume 20, No. 4 that discusses from usury to interest. Usury definitions are 1 The lending out of money with an interest charge for its use: the taking or practice of taking interest 2 An unconscionable or exorbitant rate or amount of interest, specifically interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. Between definitions 1 and 2 are 2000 years of Western history, beginning with Biblical strictures against charging any interest and reaching today's sophisticated credit economy, in which interest, per se, is accepted and only excessive interest is illegal.

Description: Overview of the actuarial profession in Europe and includes information on how actuaries are trained and what their roles and responsibilities are in the member countries of the European Economic Community, EEC.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article discusses the activities and goals of the Product Development Section which is in its sixth year.

Description: This article announces the availability of ACTEX Study manuals for the November 1988 exams.

Description: This article announces the upcoming publication of the book Our Yesterdays, authored by Jack Moorhead, FSA 1938.