Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about a pension section meeting. The moderator opened the meeting by laying down some general principles. Using market value instead of book, accounting for unrealized gains, taking cognizance of different cash flows, objectives, constraints on the manager, and other characteristics of the funds to be compared-all met with general acceptance, in this audience at least.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: This article is about the challenging role of the actuary in business and how Canada's resolution to this challenge can benefit the profession as a whole.

Description: Will the Enrolled Actuary replace the FSA? Maybe was the answer to that question, which posed the topic for discussion at a recent New York Actuaries Club meeting. This 1976 article is a recap of that recent meeting, discussing the implications for the SOA and Academy of the new federal designation of Enrolled Actuary for pension actuaries, and how that would play out with respect to the SOA’s professional designations and the role of the Academy.

Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.