Description: background history of the insurance industry and the role of actuaries within it, followed by the current environment and anticipated future environment.

Description: Editorial discussing competencies actuaries need to have in order for the profession to be recognized as the leading professionals in the modeling and management of financial risk.

Description: Article highlights how to set goals

Description: This article discusses the question, should the Canadian Institute of Actuaries ask the universities to assume the primary role for the education of actuaries in Canada?

Description: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.

Description: The Society of Actuaries established the Board of Publications which proudly announces the birth of the Record. This publication will contain all presentations and discussions at Concurrent Sessions during meetings plus transcripts of some addresses, lectures, and teaching sessions.

Description: Announces the first major grant awarded to the newly formed Society of Actuaries Foundation to fund the development, production, and distribution costs for a major book on financial economic theory as it applies to the work of actuaries.

Description: Book review of The Fundamentals of Pension Mathematics by Barnet E. Barin. Mr. Griffin supports the text as a valuable contribution in particular his analysis of gains/losses by source during the transition to utilizing computers for pension valuation.

Description: This article contains summaries from three different local actuarial club meetings that were focused on the examination system and the actuarial profession.

Description: Looks at the non-traditional role of actuary Kim Johnson as a vice president of investor relations.