Description: This is an in-depth look at the root causes of the subprime mortgage crisis and ways actuaries can eliminate the problems. From the Actuary Magazine, April/May 2010 – Volume 7 Issue 2.

Description: In 1971, a group of New York actuaries met informally with socio-economist, Edith Lynton, and heard some grim forebodings about how the larger economic problems affect the insurance industry.

Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 9 is an update on the current efforts of the ALC-LIAA Joint Actuarial Committee to bring about certain changes in the Standard Valuation Law and the Standard Non-forfeiture Law. These efforts may have an important influence on operations of life insurance companies in the United States.

Description: Reports the results of one application of a Future Research technique-in this case, forecasting future economic variables.

Description: This article is a summary of a November 1981 actuarial club presentation by Robert D. Shapiro. It begins with the rise of Universal Life in 1981 with the climate of high interest rates and minimization of company federal income tax and then discusses the year 1982 with declining interest rates and the changes made to UL.

Description: The actuarial techniques actuaries use in financial security systems can be adapted to provide valuation of potential corporate environmental liabilities.

Description: Editorial that explores how underlying issues of the economic bubble were actuarial in nature.

Description: This article examines Consumer Price Index, how it works and some considerations when using it in financial agreements.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 discusses Keynes impact on inflation.

Description: Great damage is being done to the U.S. economy as a result of the widespread misunderstanding that the Consumer Price Index measures changes in the cost of living.