Description: Reports the comments of Chris Bone, Chair of the SOA's Retirement Systems Research Committee, on the pension funding changes tucked away in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Congress passed in December.

Description: A discussion of the skills and attitudes actuaries need to develop in order to be a business leader in the future

Description: This editorial notes that a letter, appearing in this issue of The Actuary,’ may not be alone in maintaining that the vagaries of our regulatory system handicap companies to the point that United States policyholders get poorer value for their premium dollar than do those in other countries.’ The article goes on to discuss guaranteed surrender values, the state regulatory system in the U.S and other topics in addressing this question.

Description: Feature article describing what makes a company a systemically important financial institution and the new rules those companies will have to follow.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: This brief article presents historical stock exchange aggregate returns, comparing results in the United States and United Kingdom.

Description: This article is speculation about the state of North America in the year 2020 given demographic, racial, social and technological changes that are occurring in society.

Description: Feature article about the different types of retirement systems throughout the world and how watching what they do could help the U.S. retirement system.

Description: London Stocks in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4.