Description: List of exhibitors, sorted by booth number.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 31, Number 7 - September 1997

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Special Report - February 1991

Description: As the search continues for a solution to the U.S. Social Security system’s financing problems, the U.S. Congress is considering raising the normal retirement age for U.S. workers. The House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee heard testimony on Feb. 26, 1998 from Christopher Bone, chief actuary, Actuarial Sciences Associates, Somerset, N.J., Ron Gebhardtsbauer, senior pension fellow, American Academy of Actuaries, and Robert Myers, former chief actuary of the U.S. Social Security Administration and professor emeritus, Temple University. All discussed the impact of a higher normal retirement age. This article summarizes the testimony of these three actuaries.

Description: This article announces that Lester Thurow, economist, professor and author, will be the keynote speaker at the Society of Actuaries' 1998 annual meeting, Oct. 18-21, in New York.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 32, Number 3 - March 1998

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 32, Number 5 - May 1998

Description: Recent testimony on Social Security was given to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging by David Langer, who defended the current system and strongly opposed recent moves to privatize. This article summarizes Mr. Langer's testimony.

Description: This article describes the Actuarial Research Clearinghouse [ARCH] CD-ROM Project whereby the highlights of each Actuarial Research Conference [ARC] presentation are videotaped and then digitized and recorded on a CD-ROM. This disk is then used to develop a computer-based, user-friendly, multimedia summary of the highlights of ARC.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.