Description: This article is about professional responsibilities and the resources available for guidance in our actuarial practices including the Code, the qualification and practice standards and the counseling and disciplinary bodies.

Description: Letter from the SOA president describing what he thinks actuaries’ responsibilities to the public are.

Description: This article is about the fourth conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries that was held in Amsterdam on May 26 to 30, 1974. Consulting actuaries, as advisers to pension plans and insurance companies, are facing serious and surprisingly similar problems in the countries represented. While many topics were covered, the key areas appeared to be inflation, social security, regulations, relationships with accountants and professional responsibility.

Description: Discusses what triggered the Morris review, what it found, and what it might mean to the actuarial profession in the UK.

Description: This article gives an example of how a proposed change to Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 4 would decrease the quality of work done by the actuary of a pension plan or increase misunderstanding.