Description: Is 'business ethics' an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp? An article discusses the notion of business ethics. The author presents a series of questions that provides a framework for managerial ethical decision making.

Description: Article The Manhart Case by Webster, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: In this era of enterprise risk management, actuaries should reassess what we tell the public about what we provide. We should allow buyers to make informed choices based upon all the facts. We should recognize that regulatory and judicial forces will be focused on the products we produce for a very long time. This 2004 editorial from The Actuary Magazine discusses some common financial practices that are undergoing closer regulatory scrutiny.

Description: Review of Professor Belth's book 'Life Insurance: A Consumer Handbook'.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of the article “The Statistician as Expert Witness,” by Joseph G. Van Matre and William N. Clark, from the Feb. 1976 issue of “The American Statistician.” The author of this article notes that the article he is reviewing has general application to anyone serving as an expert witness in a court of law, especially in its remarks about the ethical responsibilities of such a person and in its advice on preparing to give testimony. Written from the viewpoint of a statistician, it has equal applicability to an actuary serving as an expert witness. The SOA has reprinted this article with permission from The American Statistical Association.

Description: Article discusses a presentation by Mr. E. J. Moorhead, Past President of the Society and President-Elect of the American Academy of Actuaries at the October meeting of the Actuaries Club of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The author highlights Mr. Moorhead's perspective on the importance of ethics and Academy membership to each and every actuary.

Description: This brief article from the new in 1981 Task Force on Guides to Professional Conduct, asks members for input in order to fulfill its charge for making recommendations on such questions as: What, if any, written standards of ethical conduct does the Society need?

Description: Intoduction to an issue of The Actuary focusing on the Manhart case, in which a controversial brief was presented to the Supreme Court by the SOA and AAA.

Description: The Fellowship Admissions Course FAC will make its debut in September 1990. It will allow candidates to explore professional ethics issues in depth, along with real-world problems and their relationship to the exam syllabus, and then to gain perspective on those issues from the views and insights of others.

Description: Argues the value of actuaries' sense of responsibility as a counter-weight to the business inclination to offer anything that will sell.