Description: If a stock life insurance company is to continue to be an attractive vehicle for stockholder investment, adequate recognition must be given to the importance of the basic economic concept of return on stockholder equity. This Actuarial Note discusses return on stockholder equity as it relates to a life insurance company and is intended to stimulate further thinking in this area. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.

Description: This is the presidential address by former SOA president, Thomas P. Bowles, Jr. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973, Vol. 25, Pt. 1, No. 73.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discusses marketing issues for life companies including concerns over abandoning the small face amount market and the shift to term insurance from permanent.

Description: This is a discussion about computer modeling as a management tool. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol 21 Pt. 2, No. 59

Description: This is a discussion about computer models and simulation tools for life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, No. 59AB

Description: This discussion of the Forum for Consulting Actuaries is about issues facing consulting actuaries including how well the SOA meets their needs, the future of consulting, problems that consultants face in practice, and guides to professional conduct.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: This is a discussion about insurance company equity products from the viewpoints of the actuary, the agent and the regulatory authority. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59.

Description: Provides a theoretical basis for determining an insurer's price-earnings ratio, discusses the effect on earnings of changes in investment income, and discusses the effect on surplus and earnings of changes in reserve basis.

Description: This is the special report about actuaries taking professional inventory. External, as well as internal, forces have directed actuaries' attention to the need for a re-examination and reappraisal of their 'professionalism.' As evidence of the need for an introspective analysis, the following are issues that several actuarial bodies are currently examining through joint committees: 1. independence, 2. organization and disciplinary procedures, 3. professional conduct, 4. actuarial principles for funding of pension plans, 5. education and examination, and 6. experience requirements. Most of these involve the relationship of the actuary to the general public. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt.2D, No. 75 AB.