Description: Editorial that explores how underlying issues of the economic bubble were actuarial in nature.

Description: Recently completed experience and research studies from the SOA.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 6 answers the questions of how pension planning can be used to promote a better environment for pensioners?

Description: This article summarizes a series of surveys that explore how the public perceives retirement risks and manages related financial resources. It also provides examples of conflicting perceptions and behavior related to retirement and how retirees manage assets in retirement.

Description: This article discusses the idea of controlling health care costs through wellness. The author states that it has already been clearly demonstrated that actuaries practicing wellness produce more accurate valuations and earnings forecasts, are more skillful in product pricing and design, and are more popular with government examiners, accountants and even agents.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about insurance past and present

Description: This article introduces the reader to probabilistic methods used to model interactions in the financial market place. Three topics are specifically discussed, two concern modeling methods and the other concerns data analysis methods.

Description: This article brings forth a humorous discussion of fat executives stemming from the New York Times report which polled 15,000 executives showing that fat executives received less pay and are less likely to advance as quickly a lean persons.

Description: In 1971, a group of New York actuaries met informally with socio-economist, Edith Lynton, and heard some grim forebodings about how the larger economic problems affect the insurance industry.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 8 that talks about the Rule of 72.