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: 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.

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the SOA's April 1976 Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The theme of the discussion was the responsibility of actuaries in changing times.

Description: Editor's version of how The Actuary got its start. Pays homage to E. Jack Moorhead and the original production staff.

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

Description: Editorial discusses what has come to be called the publications gap, where some material goes unpublished because there is no forum for it. The ultimate recommendation to the SOA's Executive Committee was to expand The Actuary into a magazine-type publication.

Description: This session discussed about the needs of pension actuaries and other actuarial organizations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: This paper attempts to reduce several variables to their bare minimum and to investigate how the cost of vesting depends upon those few that remain. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.

Description: Editorial that seeks to find the uniqueness of the actuarial profession.