Description: This article provides an overview of the new Financial and Health Economics module now requried for all FSA's.

Description: This article discusses why middle-market consumers don’t seek much-needed financial advice from professional financial advisors.

Description: This column for the SOA’s education department describes the ways professional development has changed and lists some of the new offerings.

Description: Article announcing election results and that the motto is reaffirmed.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 provides the author's comments on Health Maintenance Organizations and describes an opportunity for actuaries to apply as service providers to this developing industry.

Description: This article covers the presentation given by Mr. Gerald Hutchinson of the Social Security Administration to the Baltimore Actuaries Club recently on the subject of surnames. A surname has six or few letters.

Description: This is a book review of 'Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices' by Peter F. Drucker, considered by some to be the high priest of management. The book is divided into three parts- The Tasks, The Manager and Top Management. The last named contains much food for thought, not just for top management but for the underlayer as well. The first two parts reveal Drucker’s knowledge of and insight into what is good management and what is not. Repeatedly, he makes his point by citing real cases and describing real companies. His occasional comments on the life insurance industry are pointed. The book is also noteworthy for giving us another law to stand alongside those of Parkinson, Murphy and Peter- Drucker’s Law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'

Description: This article is a summary of the presentations and activities at the Eleventh Annual Actuarial Research Conference, held from September 2 to September 4, 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. One of the key actuarial topics at the conference was the concept of clustering analysis.

Description: An article provides a report from the Society of Actuaries Board of Governors meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on June 14-15, 1994. Included are Board actions, particularly on SOA Bylaws, the establishment of the SOA Ambassador Program, and the creation of a heath Risk Adjuster research project.

Description: Seems actuarial representation is greater than could be randomly expected in road racing and track and field events.