Description: This article provides an overview of the new Financial and Health Economics module now requried for all FSA's.

Description: Seems actuarial representation is greater than could be randomly expected in road racing and track and field events.

Description: Discusses the International Section's Ambassador Program.

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

Description: This article discusses the role that actuaries can play in health care mergers and acquisitions.

Description: A report of the recent meeting of the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA highlighting actuarial education, accounting standards and the organization's business plan.

Description: A Canadian actuary discusses the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA, a section of the IAA, and highlights its support of professionalism, actuarial practice and actuarial education.

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: In this editorial, the author draws on the past to briefly address the uncertainties of the future. From The Actuary Vol. 33, No. 8.