Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 that talks about the various ways of constructing systems and suggests the desirability of establishing measures of efficiency for the alternatives so that we may rationally choose among them.

Description: Article from The Actuary February 1968 – volume 2 - Issue 2 summarizing a special session from the 1967 SOA Annual Meeting titled, "Mortality Estimation and Risk Theory Aspects of Mortality." The four papers presented are outlined.

Description: This article poses the question, why doesn't the teaching of life contingencies start with the premise that the rate of investment income is a random process in a similar manner to the random nature of the time until death? The article suggests some methods for doing so.

Description: This is a summary of topics discussed at the 1996 Bowles Symposium: “The Old Age Crisis: Actuarial Opportunities,” September 26-27, 1996, at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Description: This article promotes the concept of long range planning for life insurance companies and notes that actuaries are well equiped for this activity.

Description: This is a discussion of the preliminary report of the committee on valuation and related topics. The committee elected to commence its work by examining the fundamental principles of valuation. The traditional issues in the valuation of an insurance enterprise appear within this general framework. The objective of the committee's work is to measure the balance between assets and liabilities in today's volatile economy.

Description: This article is a recap of the Actuarial Research Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1983.

Description: On Capitol Hill in Washington and in almost every academic, professional, or trade association meeting that relates to life insurance, sessions are being devoted to cost comparisons. It is clear that this intensive activity could have a significant impact on the marketing of life insurance.

Description: This article is a brief summary of the 1983 Actuarial Research Conference held September 29 - October 1, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The topic was Population Projections: Techniques and Implications. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1984, Vol. 1.

Description: This article is about looking back over the last 100 years. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1