Description: Consensus of viewpoints from a group discussion on economic forecasting at the March meeting of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Description: The New York State Insurance Department has appointed a committee to redraft and modernize its agent compensation law to account for new forms of insurance. The New York law, which has had a major effect on agent compensation since the early 1900s protects consumers from excessive expenses and generally has worked well.

Description: This article reviews proposals in the Carter Report for additional taxation on Canadian insurance companies and their policyholders.

Description: Book review of The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 269 Setting National Priorities, the 1975 Budget. Federal spending now accounts for at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. It is the single most important expression of America's priorities. The material in the book is a fertile source of material for the needed debate.

Description: Article Confidentiality Of Federal Statistics by Johansen in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: A summary of the report of the Canadian Royal Commission on Taxation. According to the author, the report conceives the tax structure to be a proper tool of government in far-reaching policies of income redistribution and management of the economy.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 is an extract from a recently discovered Dead Sea Scroll regarding language to be included in a prospectus to provide potential investors with an adequate basis for judging the offering.

Description: A review of a pamphlet which described the amendments to the Social Security Act in 1977.

Description: Three 1983 U.S. Supreme Court pension-and-welfare-related opinions, viz. a. Shaw, b. Construction Laborers, and c. Morrison-Knudsen, merit at least passing attention by actuaries even though their impact upon the actuary’s work may vary from slight to significant.