Description: A summary of a preliminary report from the Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, on guidelines for quantifying balance sheet items in an insurance enterprise.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.

Description: Editor's version of how The Actuary got its start. Pays homage to E. Jack Moorhead and the original production staff.

Description: Editorial asking whether the actuarial profession in North American should be considered as one profession or two.

Description: Editorial discusses what has come to be called the publications gap, where some material goes unpublished because there is no forum for it. The ultimate recommendation to the SOA's Executive Committee was to expand The Actuary into a magazine-type publication.

Description: Editorial that seeks to find the uniqueness of the actuarial profession.

Description: Editorial from The Actuary, March 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 3.

Description: Editorial from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1.

Description: Editorial about two giants in the actuarial field, Reinhard A. Hohaus and James E. Hoskins, who both died in January 1987, two days apart.

Description: In this editorial, the President of the SOA discusses the changes to the Constitution and the tight conditions spelled out in Article X relating to Statements of Professional Opinion.