Description: This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Reports in Connection with Social Security Legislation 1975-77, 'Statement on Cost Comparisons of Individual Life Insurance Policies', by Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 'Investment Activities of Life Insurance Companies' from Huebner Foundation Lectures, 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma' by Johns, 'The Future of Social Security' by Munnell, 'Social Security - Today and Tomorrow' by Ball, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'The Crisis in Social Security - Problems and Prospects' by Boskin, 'A History of Interest Rates' by Homer, 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert Myers, 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Strain, '1978 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund...' by US Congress. Brief summaries of additional readings are also included.

Description: This article is a book review of Life Insurance Company Investment Activities, Huebner Foundation Lectures, edited by J. David Cummins, and published for the S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. The author notes it has been 25 years since a similar work was published by the Huebner Foundation, and that the new book does a good job of capturing the many changes that have occurred in that time. The article summarizes the book’s discussion of various topics, including investment strategy, types of investments, the impact of inflation, and investment regulation.