Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that discusses the New South Life Case which happens to be one of the mercifully few life companies in which a major deficit has been directly linked to miscalculation of policy reserves.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, discusses 35 members, dubbed two-timers who earned Fellowship in both the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries before these two merged, by passing separate and distinct examinations in each body from the first Associateship part to the last Fellowship part.

Description: An article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no.17, issue no. 3 that discusses the math exam prizewinners and the ultimate impact this prize has the actuarial profession in terms of growth.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that highlights what the actuarial pioneers were like. One major characteristic is that, unlike most of us, many brought with them the stamp of previous business or professional experience they had had before becoming actuaries.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that discusses actuaries who practiced in North America up to 1869. This tabulation, by company, of actuaries who flourished more than 20 years before the Actuarial Society of America was organized in April 1889, is by way of being a second progress report - see our May 1982 and September 1982 issues.

Description: This is the second of two articles from The Actuary, April 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 4, that discusses math exam prizewinners. The tabulation in our March issue summarized the experience from among 233 prizewinners of the 24-year period 1947-70. Forty-two of them became Fellows. In this article we examine these same 233 people in terms of the academic institutions from which they wrote the prizewinning examinations.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 10, that is an editorial written by the editor of The Actuary that highlights that in recent years many U.K. insurance companies have moved away from London so that now there are perhaps three times as many major insurance centres as before World War II. This has given rise to substantial congregations of actuaries and actuarial students elsewhere than in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Norwich and other longtime insurance cities. This editor had the pleasure of visiting these newer groups as well as to the Student's Societies in London and Edinbrugh.

Description: This paper describes the development and construction of persistency tables for use by the actuary in valuing future expenses and in various types of forecasting. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This article shows some vital statistics of Canada including births, deaths, marriages and divorces per 1000 population along with motor vehicle deaths in the years 1972, 1975, 1978 and 1981.

Description: This article describes the membership of the SOA outside of the United Sates. An informal count places the number of such members in active practice at 406.