Description: 1. The Board authorized the Society to participate in a public relations effort centered around the 1989 Centennial Celebration meeting, with the costs to be shared by the several actuarial organizations sponsoring the meeting. The effort is designed to increase the visibility and enhance the role of the actuary.

Description: This article describes changes in The Actuary including a new design, a new editorial staff, and some difference in the contents. The changes also reflect the response to surveyed members that they would like to see more discussions of current events relating to actuarial practices and market developments and more debates of issues and information on regulatory developments.

Description: Panelists discuss efforts toward developing a more-formal set of requirements for the valuation actuary in the valuation process. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8 documenting the actions from the Board Of Governors meeting held on May 17, 1989 in Vancouver, B.C.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 1998, Issue No. 16.

Description: This article highlights the nonroutine actions taken by the Board of Governors on January 21, 1988, in Chicago, Illinois.

Description: The Board endorsed the concepts of the recommendations in the final report of the Task Force on Strengthening the Actuarial Profession. Details regarding these recommendations will be communicated to the memberships of the Society and other North American actuarial organizations. In summary, the recommendations call for: definition and clarification of the responsibilities of the different organizations.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Regional Meeting focuses on sales illustrations for life insurance policies with nonguaranteed elements. Historical development, current regulations and ideas for future improvement in consumer provided information on these products are discussed.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various individual life and health insurance topics including new health benefits, health underwriting, life insurance guaranteed insurability, conditional receipts and term insurance.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including Unisex rating, UL reserves and non-forfeiture values, policies without guaranteed cash surrender values, and smoker/non-smoker mortality tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.