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

Description: This article is about a discussion at a 1919 joint meeting of the Actuarial Society and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors on prohibition.

Description: This article provides comments on some of the economic and demographic forecasts in the 1976 OASDI Report Social Security.

Description: a review of a paper by R. H. Daw, F.I.A. entitled “Smallpox and the Double Decrement Table: a piece of actuarial prehistory.”

Description: A description of the election process within the SOA, the role of the Board of Governors, and how the process has evolved from an on-the-spot balloting process to a mail-in process.

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 author of this article, The Actuary’s editor, notes that this article is a capsule of what may be called “the Angle/Bladen theme.” John C. Angle spoke at Hartford in April 1980 see the Record for that meeting, pp. 188-193. His investment colleague, Ashby Bladen, addressed our Annual Meeting in Montreal last October 1980. Their observations were about mutual life insurance in the United States. The article notes that the current economic environment, with interest rates “far outside the familiar 3% to 6% range,” is a difficult one for life insurers and their traditional products, that we are becoming less conservative when the risk of serious economic trouble is rising, and “a satisfactory future depends on restoring stability, not upon trying to learn how to cope with instability.”

Description: This article is a summary of responses to a questionnaire from Benjamin I. Gottlieb in Washington that had been sent to a random sample of 500 Society Fellows in the U.S. The questionnaire dealt with the anticipated long-term economic and demographic assumptions for social security.

Description: This is the survey results from the questionnaires covering the Spring Regional Meetings. From The Actuary, September 1968, Vol. 2, No. 7.

Description: Franklin B. Dana's query at the close of his article in this issue prompted us to turn to several members who were active in Society affairs in the 1950s. We asked them what they recall of past efforts to promote the idea of having a Government Actuary in Washington, and how they see today’s prospects.