Description: A report of the recent meeting of the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA highlighting actuarial education, accounting standards and the organization's business plan.

Description: A Canadian actuary discusses the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA, a section of the IAA, and highlights its support of professionalism, actuarial practice and actuarial education.

Description: Description of the Fifth Annual Convention of the Actuarial Society of Zimbabwe.

Description: this article is a recap of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Actuarial Association

Description: Emilie Bouchard introduces herself as Canadian Liaison for SOA.

Description: Discussion of inflation: Causes and impacts and what the roles of actuaries might be to manage it.

Description: The author supports the idea of developing a standard world wide definition of an actuary because the profession is not well known outside of the U.S. and U.K.

Description: Panelists discussed, from the perspective of various countries, the current systems of peer review of an actuary's work relating to financial statements.

Description: In an article on the same subject, in the March 1976 issue of The Actuary, it was reported that the Sub-Committee on Notation of the International Actuarial Association had circulated a questionnaire among the various national organizations to sound out public opinion on the issue of linearization and expansion of the International Actuarial Notation. This article is an update on recent developments reflecting the Special Meeting on the International Actuarial Notation, held October 30, 1976 at the XX International Congress of Actuaries.

Description: This 1976 article discusses the history and current developments with respect to the International Actuarial Notation, including reference to a paper on this topic in the December 1972 issue of The Actuary by John Boermeester.