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: The basic thesis posed by this overview is that a mixed strategy, involving both savings and labor force components for the challenge of the graying of the developed world is a good public, corporate, and individual strategy. From The Old-Age Crisis - Actuarial Opportunities -The 1996 Bowles Symposium, M-RS99-1.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting explains the need for a completely new text book with a more modern approach for life contingencies or actuarial mathematics to replace the book by Jordan. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This session 1GS of thePalm Desert Spring Meeting discusses the aging of our society. Topics include how fertility and mortality affect aging and the effects of changing demographics in the U.S. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about insurance past and present

Description: This section contains reviews for the following books, Introduction to the Mathematics of Demography by Robert Brown, A Tale of Two Captains by John Baynes and Hugh Maclean, Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence Goodheart, The Federal Data Base Finder by Matthew Lesko and the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920, A History of a German-American Enterprise by Anita Rapone. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about what do we need to do as a profession in order to prepare ourselves and our profession as a whole for the needs and demands of the future. Focus is on education, research, professionalism, and public relations.

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 presentation from Session 10 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses thirty years of changing retirement risks faced by American workers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

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