Description: News from London is that the Institute’s Students’ Society, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Ltd., has arranged a two-day course “to assist in bridging the gap between the range of modern computing equipment and software on the one hand, and the tasks and problems faced by the actuary in running his office on the other.”

Description: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has developed a data bank containing information about pensions and changing prices, extracted from 1,100 companies’ annual reports.

Description: Headquarters having kindly sent the data, we are able to display the spread of new Fellows’ ages. The data is from 1981 and prior.

Description: At least three of our members have received attention lately in The New York Times. This is a series of short pieces focusing on unusual and amusing stories of actuaries.

Description: This article describes the membership of the SOA outside of the United Sates. An informal count places the number of such members in active practice at 406.

Description: In the January issue of FIASCO is a suggestion from M. A. Pomery. There is also a vigorous exchange of views on whether the general insurance business that, to quote one writer, “for nearly 250 years has been conducted with a remarkable record of success by non-actuaries”, is in vast need of actuarial expertise.

Description: This is a discussion about agency matters such as: new agents, experienced agents, general agents and managers, agent survival rates, etc. Also discussed is the impact that Medicare will have on private health insurance business. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.

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: This is a discussion about various underwriting issues including broadening the standard class at younger ages, overinsurance, mortality experience on guaranteed and automatic issue and taking smoking habits into account in underwriting life insurance risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion looks at the actuary shortage and solutions. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.