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

Description: This article reports the deaths of seven members of the Society of Actuaries.

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 article provides comments about questions raised and discussed in the March and May 1981 issues of The Actuary regarding the relative merits of a U.S. Government Actuary post.

Description: This article chronicles those who have had the FSA designation for 50 years or more, now numbering 100.

Description: Column discussing recent events at and around the SOA.

Description: This article is an interview with Linda Emory in which she reflects on a few aspects of her new position as editor of The Actuary.

Description: This article provides a review of the 1993-1994 Year. 'This program year is marked by the profession using the firm foundation of actuarial science and the solid organization of the Society of Actuaries to reach out to new allies and technologies to capture its future. From The Actuary, December 1994 – Volume 28, No. 10.

Description: This article reports on recent activitiies of the Society of Actuaries Committees on Knowledge Extension Research and Retirement Systems Research.