Description: This article summarizes the changes in the rules for discipline of U.S. actuaries, which were recently updated, detailed, and clarified through the revision of Article X of the American Academy of Actuaries’ bylaws.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial staff of the U.S. General Accounting Office GAO, providing a bit of history, the structure of the GAO, and explaining that GAO actuaries act as consultants to all the operating divisions of the GAO on matters involving pensions, insurance, and related issues. The author also revisits an earlier proposal for a Government Actuary, a higher level position responsible for all actuarial work of the Executive branch, as well as the GAO, and asks whether the actuarial profession should again support such a proposal.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article explores the differences and the commonalities of UK vs US actuarial practice with an emphasis on pensions.

Description: This article solicits comments on a proposal for a periodic survey to obtain needed data on retirement, health, and economics among retirement-age persons sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.

Description: An article in which the author's mother challenges the 1941 CSO Mortality Tables Omega and wins.

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: Editor's summary of items in this issue of The Actuary.

Description: This article is about Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow for the American Academy of Actuaries, filling in for U.S. President Bill Clinton at a December 1998 White House Conference on Social Security. Gebhardtsbauer moderated a one-and-a-half-hour discussion that was carried live on the nationwide C-SPAN 2 network.

Description: The article notes that the Society of Actuaries has been invited as one of four new members on the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics JAHCOGS, and tells Society members “if you use government statistics - if you would like data to be available to you before they are outdated - if you have doubts about the quality or accuracy of data and/or analyses - if you are concerned about costs to industry and taxpayers of information gathering - if you have ideas on how to improve any phase of government statistics - here is your chance to speak out.”

Description: This is a list Of U.S. And Canadian Schools Offering Actuarial Science Courses in 1974. From The Actuary Vol. 8, No. 5.