Description: A summary of a preliminary report from the Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, on guidelines for quantifying balance sheet items in an insurance enterprise.

Description: Reviews book entitled An Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks by Richard Brealey. The book provides a description of the stock market, as seen through the eyes of the statistician.

Description: Discusses extension of the current favorable tax treatment of employer-sponsored pension plans to additional groups and to employee contributions.

Description: In this editorial, the President of the SOA discusses the changes to the Constitution and the tight conditions spelled out in Article X relating to Statements of Professional Opinion.

Description: An editorial on the insurance crisis with regards to liability insurance, and the breakdown of the liability system.

Description: Describes the OASDI / HI changes brought about by the enactment of H.R. 1 in late October of 1972 including modifications for the HMO Act.

Description: Editorial asking whether the actuarial profession in North American should be considered as one profession or two.

Description: In the environment of discussions about simplifying the tax code for individuals including eliminating many deductions, this editorial raises the question of the appropriateness of eliminating some of the tax benefits of employer benefit plans.

Description: Editorial from The Actuary, February 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 2.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.