Description: This is the Presidential Address at the SOA annual meeting of October 1995. He highlights initiatives undertaken over the past two years to move the SOA from an inward-looking to an outward-looking organization.

Description: Panelists will discuss and stimulate audience discussion on the potential roles and opportunities for actuaries during and after health care reform. Included is a perspective from Cananda's experience. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B.

Description: Actuarial literature in the twenty-five years includes discussions of a well known inequality. Among the recent papers on various aspects of this classic result are those by Berin 1970, Olson 1975 and Sarason 1960. A standard method for achieving this inequality uses Jensen's inequality. This is the method used by Bowers, et al 1983. We will also employ this method in an attempt to learn about it.

Description: This is the author's address at the SOA annual meeting on October 18, 1994 as the incoming President. He talks about areas of discussion regarding the SOA's future.

Description: This article presents a satire about a research organization that produces studies of simple and irrelevant questions.

Description: Book review of a book on pensions written by Ralph Nader and Kate Blackwell. Review is relatively balanced, yet clearly points out the shortfalls of the analysis put together by Mr. Nader and Ms. Blackwell.

Description: This is the presidential address by former President of the SOA, Barnet N. Berin. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting examines ethics from the standpoint of the actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses ethics in general, and then examines the topic of ethics as it relates to professional and corporate planning. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.