Description: This article describes activities of the Board of Governors to strengthen the role of research within the SOA. The Board actions include approving two additional professional staff positions for the Research Department and including $150,000 in a Research Development Fund to serve as seed money for research projects.

Description: This article notes that the SOA has been accepted as an affiliate member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS. The author believes this affiliation helps support the concept of an actuary being both a business person and a scientist.

Description: In session 142OF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss key existing research projects as well as suggestions for new projects. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In this article, the author exhorts the actuarial community to move toward a more research-oriented culture, much like that which exists in the UK.

Description: This article highlights the research projects under review by the Research Policy Committee. It also invites submission of other projects with the caveat that ideas submitted without an offer of partial or complete funding will have a lower priority level.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1998 – volume 32 - Issue 5: Individual savings, or accumulation, products include single premium deferred annuities, single premium life insurance, separate accounts, and others. This article describes a conference on these types of products that was held in January 1999.

Description: I recently was privileged to represent the Society of Actuaries in Holland at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Dutch Actuarial Society. I’m not going to do a travelogue telling you how friendly the people are. Rather, I want to bring two important matters to your attention. First, the whole world is involved in the business we think of as particularly ours.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are a summary of two workshops - Methods of Computing 'Net Cost' for Ordinary Life Insurance and Life and Health Insurance Plans for Groups with Generally Fewer than Twenty Five Lives. There is also a discussion of a proposed SOA constituional amendment related to public expressions of opinion.