Description: Article discusses the how the older population has been treated throughout history with low regard and often as a burden on society.

Description: This article discusses fringe benefits for the retired from a 1967 meeting of the Canadian Pension Conference.

Description: Actuaries have been indebted to the Statistical Bureau of the Metropolitan Life for studies in vital statistics associated with the names of Dublin, Lew and Spiegelman and a recent study by Quint and Cody is in this tradition. It is headed Preeminence and Mortality and was presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association last November. This article shares further perspectives about longevity, and the characteristics of people who experience long lives.

Description: This report was prepared in response to a request by the Task Force on Life Insurance Cost Comparisons of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The Institute of Life Insurance was requested to deal with The nature of the whole life contract, taking into consideration the assumption that it may be separated into protection and savings elements ....

Description: The author expresses an opinion opposing specialization within FSA examinations explaining that such activity should occur after achieving FSA.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 4 deals with the effects of aging on activities physical and mental and attitudes satisfactions.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 discusses Keynes impact on inflation.

Description: In the article in The Actuary, April 1972 the writer referred to the 15-year study of aging by Professor Edman Palmore of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development of Duke University. His research indicated that work satisfaction was the best overall predictor of longevity and the second was overall happiness, reflecting a person's general satisfaction with his or her situation. The author discusses Work in America a paper written during the Nixon administration.

Description: This article reviews environmental issues as discussed in The Doomsday Book by Thames and Hudson, London. From The Actuary, May 1971, Vol. 5, No. 5.

Description: This report is a brief summary of a symposium held in Sweden in March 1972, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish insurance companies which discusses the side effects of the development of modern chemical industry and the exposure of living organisms to a variety of chemicals in the environment. The danger of the long term effects on health are addressed.