Description: This keynote debate from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses if the Society of Actuaries is adequately equipping its members for the role their employers and clients should expect of them. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This article examines the number of years people have served on the SOA Board and categorizes these people in various ways in order to determine if there is a leadership establishment at the SOA.

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: 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: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

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.

Description: This is a panel discussion on accreditation of actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2, No. 44

Description: This panel discussion covers the origins, changes and developments during the first twenty years of the Society of Actuaries since its founding in 1949. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, No. 61.

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: This session summarizes the 1989 Centennial Celebration of the Actuarial Profession in North America. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1