Description: Description and specifications for the health section's article-writing contest on the topic of provider payment reform.

Description: Discussion with Suzanna-Grace Sayre on her career path, as well as any valuable insights she has to offer.

Description: Announces appointment to position that will make Mr. Heitzman the actuarial profession's chief public policy liaison on pension matters.

Description: This article lists the winners of 16 research grants from the SOA, with recipients representing a wide range of expertise and geographic locations.

Description: As the search continues for a solution to the U.S. Social Security system’s financing problems, the U.S. Congress is considering raising the normal retirement age for U.S. workers. The House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee heard testimony on Feb. 26, 1998 from Christopher Bone, chief actuary, Actuarial Sciences Associates, Somerset, N.J., Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow, American Academy of Actuaries, and Robert Myers, former chief actuary of the U.S. Social Security Administration and professor emeritus, Temple University. All discussed the impact of a higher normal retirement age. This article summarizes the testimony of these three actuaries.

Description: This article announces that Lester Thurow, economist, professor and author, will be the keynote speaker at the Society of Actuaries' 1998 annual meeting, Oct. 18-21, in New York.

Description: This is the program for the 30th Annual Actuarial Research Conference held at The Penn State Scanticon Conference Center in University Park, PA on August 17-19, 1995. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1996, Vol. 1.

Description: This is the agenda for the 33rd Annual Actuarial Research Conference held at Georgia State University, August 6-8, 1998.

Description: Chairperson talks about the activities of the section.

Description: This article lists the sessions held at the May 20-22,1992 Chicago Meeting of the Society of Actuaries for which no written record was made, with the names of those who served as leaders. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 2.