Description: Article Why He's Who He Is - A Conversation With John O'Connor in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This paper looks at the value of informal discussions at Society meetings and if the value of these discussions can be increased. presentation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This is an account of efforts by three Society Past-Presidents to translate the above lines from Horace, which introduced a paper printed in J.I.A. during the 1850's. Two of this trio, who have not authorized identification, unashamedly delegated the task to nearby experts, but with sharply differing renderings.

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: This article is about a discussion at a 1919 joint meeting of the Actuarial Society and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors on prohibition.

Description: This paper, written at the request of the chairman of the Society's special committee, contains a description of the data, methods, and principles used to determine the proposed new expense formulas for minimum nonforfeiture values. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: The article is about William Gordon, a Massachusetts life insurance advocate from the eighteenth century.

Description: This paper, presented at the Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held March 24-25, 1960 in Washington, D.C., provides the results of an experience study of first year lapse and “default” rates on ordinary insurance, where the author, Norman F. Buck, has defined “default” rate as a rate including the sum of first year lapses, not takens, and cancellations as of the issue date. The paper includes written discussion and the author’s review of the discussion. From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: This discussion addresses the following questions about health insurance maternity benefits: 1. What has been the claim, lapse, and expense experience on hospital-medical policies with maternity benefits issued to young married couples? 2. To what extent have hospital-medical policies been introduced with reduced maternity benefits during the early policy years or with no maternity benefits? 3. What other measures are being used to provide maternity benefits on a self-sustaining basis? 4. Are these measures effective? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2

Description: Addresses U.K. actuarial discussion regarding “maturity guarantees”, i.e., the reserves necessary to support promises contained in investment-linked contracts.