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: Article from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that discusses actuaries who practiced in North America up to 1869. This tabulation, by company, of actuaries who flourished more than 20 years before the Actuarial Society of America was organized in April 1889, is by way of being a second progress report - see our May 1982 and September 1982 issues.

Description: This article is about war mortality from an 1859 copy of The Spectator, by the Institute of Actuaries, J.I.A. 8 1859, 268-284.

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

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.