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: 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: 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: The NAIC Special Advisory Committee on the Standard Valuation Law presented proposals at the December 1988 NAIC meeting for implementing the valuation actuary concept into law. The proposals were contained in a preliminary report presented to the NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force, which appointed the Special Advisory Committee.

Description: A description of the Society of Actuaries publications, Volume 19, No. 6, June 1985

Description: Editorial regarding the diverse forces affecting the life insurance industry.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1988, Volume 22, No. 8, where the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries reported significant actions taken at each of their respective meetings.