Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 that talks about the various ways of constructing systems and suggests the desirability of establishing measures of efficiency for the alternatives so that we may rationally choose among them.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 that provides a recap of a talk given at the Twin Cities Actuarial Club meeting by Dr. Theodore Lindbom, Practicing Industrial Psychologist in the Twin Cities, on the selection of actuarial personnel.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 provides the author's comments on Health Maintenance Organizations and describes an opportunity for actuaries to apply as service providers to this developing industry.

Description: This article covers the presentation given by Mr. Gerald Hutchinson of the Social Security Administration to the Baltimore Actuaries Club recently on the subject of surnames. A surname has six or few letters.

Description: This is a book review of 'Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices' by Peter F. Drucker, considered by some to be the high priest of management. The book is divided into three parts- The Tasks, The Manager and Top Management. The last named contains much food for thought, not just for top management but for the underlayer as well. The first two parts reveal Drucker’s knowledge of and insight into what is good management and what is not. Repeatedly, he makes his point by citing real cases and describing real companies. His occasional comments on the life insurance industry are pointed. The book is also noteworthy for giving us another law to stand alongside those of Parkinson, Murphy and Peter- Drucker’s Law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'

Description: This article is a summary of the presentations and activities at the Eleventh Annual Actuarial Research Conference, held from September 2 to September 4, 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. One of the key actuarial topics at the conference was the concept of clustering analysis.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 5 that talks about the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Development section.

Description: Discusses highlights of the recent survey sent to all 9,435 active Canadian and U.S. members of the SOA.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 5, that is a guest editorial regarding actuaries in the community and how closely integrated and intertwined are the concepts of professionalism and community service.