Description: Article What Actuaries Need To Know About Constructing Mortality Tables by Jones in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: This is an article from a free-lance writer and is his debut performance in The Actuary. The article presents a humorous look at the information contained in the obituaries of the New York Times.

Description: This article describes quotes from the Bible that relate to the length of life and compares them to modern life expectancy statistics.

Description: Discusses the content of the 1970 Census of the United States, which will soon be available

Description: This article is a review of “1972 Lifetime Earnings by Age, Sex, Race, and Education Level, Research and Statistics Note No. 14-1975,” published by the Social Security Administration, which presents detailed data by quinquennial age groups, sex, race, and years of school completed as to the present value of future earnings based on static earnings levels 1972. It is stated that such data can be used for general analytical purposes to form policy, for court determinations of awards in damage suits, and for cost-benefit analysts in such areas as disease prevention and education programs. The author of this article notes in his analysis the inconsistency of the static salary assumptions with a range of interest rates from 2% to 8%.

Description: This article, by the President of the Faculty of Actuaries, gives the author's impressions of the Society of Actuaries April 1983 meeting held in Philadelphia. His comments focus on gender discrimination in insurance and pension plans, and the existence of a Futurism Section in the Society.

Description: Highlights of the 2014 Living to 100 Symposium.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of “Mankind at the Turning Point: the Second Report to the Club of Rome,” by Mihajlo Mesarovi and Eduard Pestel, published in 1974. The author notes that this work was initiated by the Club of Rome with the specific objective of meeting the more serious criticisms leveled at the original study, the Forrester-Meadows Limits to Growth report. The article discusses world growth and population, and the conclusions reached by the authors of the report.

Description: Book review on Standards for Discussion and Presentation of Errors in Survey and Census Data by the American Statistical Association, Washington, D.C., 1975. The material will be of interest to actuaries and of help in preparing their own study reports. The guidelines discuss some relatively simple means of presenting error estimates for published data.