Description: The paper analyzes the merits of various bases for illustrating ordinary life insurance dividends considering dividend histories, current allocation, current experience, dividend forecasts and investment generation allocation. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: This article provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: Article The U.S. Government Cost Disclosure Report by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Article Why He's Who He Is - A Conversation With John O'Connor in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Part 3 of a 3 installment series dealing with the Moss Oversight Committee dealing with sales disclosure for life insurance products

Description: We believe that some actuaries who have neglected reading their mail will welcome a reminder on behalf of the Minority Recruiting Program.

Description: The Society’s computer has obediently coughed up an array of our 4,646 Fellows by year of completing Fellowship. These figures, composed of the 4,480 Fellows shown in our current Yearbook as of November 1, 1981 increased by 178 who qualified in the November 1981 examinations and decreased by deaths and other terminations. There is also detail on the SOA budget for 1981-1982 and historical financial statements.

Description: Article on details of SOA member growth by decades. At the end of 1929 the roster of Fellows counting both the Actuarial Society and the American Institute but eliminating duplications totalled 360. Half a century later, the number was 4,024.

Description: discussion of the level and types of responses from members of the Society of Actuaries to enquiries of its members

Description: Discussion of a New York Times article dealing with the arbitraging of policy loan proceeds by investing them in money market instruments whose yields were well above the policy loan interest rate.