Description: Contained in Appendix 4 of the 1987 Valuation Actuary Handbook, this set of articles sets forth the positions of various industry groups with regard to the valuation actuary concept as of January 1987. It consists of four sections: 4.1 – Excerpts from the Report of the Task Force on the Valuation Actuary to the ACLI Board of Directors, August 1986 4.2 – Final Report of the Joint Committee on the Role of the Valuation Actuary in the United States 4.3 – Preliminary Report to NAIC Life & Health Actuarial Task Force from Surplus & Solvency Subcommittee of NAIC Standing Technical Advisory Committee, October 9-10, 1986 and 4.4 – Draft Recommendation 7 – American Academy of Actuaries paper. Views of the American Council of Life Insurance, ‘ACLI,’ the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, ‘NAIC,’ the American Academy of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries are all represented. Note that the final report in 4.2 above was adopted in 1984 by the boards of both the Academy and Society, the two organizations represented on the Joint Committee.

Description: This article explores how the SOA has advanced the knowledge of actuarial science through international partnerships and key communication. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: Article highlights changes in exams and education issues for the Society of Actuaries SOA. From The Actuary January 1993 Volume 27, No. 1.

Description: This article is about the critical role of actuaries in IT projects.

Description: Drivers of Health Care Affordability. Issue No. 45.

Description: This article provides an introduction to comparative health policy for developed, developing and third-world countries. From Health Watch News, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the Georgia Uninsured Working Group and their recommendations on solutions for the uninsured in Georgia through new HRA/HSA laws. Issue No. 59

Description: David Garrick Halmstad died in February of this year at the age of thirty-nine. The loss of one who had contributed so much to our profession in his brief span and whose promise for the future was even greater has moved a number of David's friends to attempt to extend the significance of his life beyond its untimely end. It is proposed to accomplish this by the annual award of a prize bearing his name as a memorial.

Description: The exhibit tracing actuarial history in Canada and the United States, from Benjamin Franklin to the computer age, was one of the highlights of the Society of Actuaries' Annual Meeting, in New Orleans, October 28 through 30.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1993 – Volume 27, No. 5