Description: The Society of Actuaries' managing director of actuarial research provided an overview of research activities including the funding behind research projects and the staff/volunteers involved with research.

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: 3rd Annual iPad contest announcement

Description: Diagram displaying the relationships between the various annuity certain functions.

Description: John Naisbitt, in Megatrends, defined a megatrend as a general shift in thinking or approach affecting countries, industries and organizations. This article challenges actuaries to consider off-the-charts factors within their risk maps and consider their potential impact.

Description: This article describes the “Arithmeter”, invented by Elizur Wright, to expedite the calculations made necessary by the legislation that he himself had drafted that required the Massachusetts Insurance Department to compute net level premium reserves on all policies in force. One of the few Arithmeters in existence was donated to, and is now in the possession of, the SOA.

Description: This article describes a ranking system for early prisoner release. It is intended to describe the framework and strategy needed for mitigating the risk of such programs and optimizing those programs’ outcomes.