Description: This paper develops a family of accrued benefit actuarial cost methods which permits the purchase of retirement income at either an accelerating or decelerating rate. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19, Pt. 1, No. 54.

Description: This article promotes the concept of long range planning for life insurance companies and notes that actuaries are well equiped for this activity.

Description: This is a discussion of the preliminary report of the committee on valuation and related topics. The committee elected to commence its work by examining the fundamental principles of valuation. The traditional issues in the valuation of an insurance enterprise appear within this general framework. The objective of the committee's work is to measure the balance between assets and liabilities in today's volatile economy.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting explains the need for a completely new text book with a more modern approach for life contingencies or actuarial mathematics to replace the book by Jordan. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This article is a recap of the Actuarial Research Conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1983.

Description: This section contains reviews for the following books, Introduction to the Mathematics of Demography by Robert Brown, A Tale of Two Captains by John Baynes and Hugh Maclean, Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence Goodheart, The Federal Data Base Finder by Matthew Lesko and the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920, A History of a German-American Enterprise by Anita Rapone. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session discussed the SOA research structure and provided an update on projects and experience studies.

Description: This article is about looking back over the last 100 years. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1

Description: Presenters gave their projections and analysis on demographic trends and longevity prospects going into the next century in important countries. They analyzed the factors influencing the expected trends and comment on what these trends will mean for the financial services industries and the actuarial profession around the world.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the recent data collected by the American Council of Life Insurance, and recent data collected from a comprehensive study of the Social Security system. The panel discusses the current and future implications from this data for life insurance, pensions and financial security.