Description: Discusses the reasons for professional ethics and why we have them in the actuarial profession.

Description: The article discusses the 1976 and 1981 restructuring of the SOA Fellowship examinations.

Description: A brief notice of upcoming seminars.

Description: This article shows the distribution of SOA presidents by years since Fellowship at the time of their respective presidential addresses.

Description: This is an article highlighting statistics regarding students who pass the actuarial exams and projects the membership growth through 1995.

Description: This article reports on a meeting of the officers of the Education and Examination Committee with Laval University faculty to review how the university program supported and correlated with the SOA examination process.

Description: This article focuses on the seminars sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and why they have become so popular. It also describes three upcoming seminars in Spring 1982 on Modern Investment Porfolio Theory and Immunization, Actuarial Uses of Economics and Statistical Techniques of Forecasting.

Description: Students returning to their companies after experiencing total immersion in an actuarial seminar at Northeastern University have been enthusiastic about the value of the seminars to them. Now the staff at Northeastern has decided to share the study materials with the actuarial world, and has published a series of study manuals for the actuarial exams. It appears to me, after examining the Part 7 manual, that candidates will not necessarily have to buy the manuals to stay in the competition to pass the exams. The manuals may, however, help students who are not sure how to approach the syllabus for a particular exam.

Description: This article describes a new seminar venture designed for chief actuaries of mutual life companies that attracted more senior actuaries rather than the typical up-and-coming group.

Description: Our 13 risk theory seminars, to introduce Part 5A candidates to the new material were strongly supported, and, according to 109 questionnaires since received, were popular. Prevailing opinions were that these sessions boosted attendees confidence in their ability to continue studying on their own, and their chances of passing the exam. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No. 6