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Description: Editorial discusses what has come to be called the publications gap, where some material goes unpublished because there is no forum for it.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 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: Responses to an editorial on interest sensitivity.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 7 that is an editorial on actuarial research.

Description: Editorial from The Actuary, February 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 2.

Description: This is an editorial from The Actuary, November 1986, Vol. 20, No. 9.

Description: Article from The Actuary June 1990 – Volume 24, No. 6 is about actuaries volunteering in underdeveloped countries