Description: Summary of results from survey of LTC Section members, on use of resources, meetings attendanceand topics of interest.

Description: Results from the June 2008 International Section Council survey.

Description: This article is about a colloquium held in Edinburgh, Scotland from Sept. 25–27, 2011, by the Pension Benefits and Social Security Section of the International Actuarial Association [IAA]. The theme of the meeting was international challenges in providing a safe and sustainable retirement.

Description: A recap and highlights of the activities and accomplishments of the SOA’s professional interest sections.

Description: This is the report to the Society of Actuaries by its Executive Director, Charles B. H. Watson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol. 22, Pt. 1, No. 64.

Description: Summary of results of a 2010 Health Section survey of actuaries and Medicare population, on ways to bend the cost trend curve downward. Issues included transparency, quality measures, fraud and abuse, provider payment, malpractice, medical errors, consumer education, and the pros and cons of employer-sponsored coverage.

Description: This article discusses the challenges to today's retirement system. As part of the recent Re-envisioning Work and Retirement in the 21st Century symposium, held in Washington, D.C., attendees completed a Delphi survey covering challenges to today's retirement system. This article discusses the benefits of a Delphi survey and the results of this particular one. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: It was inevitable with China being recognized as the largest insurance market with its 1.2 billion people that the importance of the actuary would quickly emerge. This article is about the Society of Actuaries donating a substantial collection of actuarial education materials to the Chinese Actuarial Association [CAA] to help develop its curriculum and symbolically support its efforts.

Description: Project Oversight Group. From Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis, M-HB97-1.

Description: A critique of the SOA's co-sponsoring of the Manhart Brief which addressed sex discrimination in pension rates. The critique argues that the brief fails to satisfy standards of academic rigor reflected in other SOA publications.