Description: A report about the changes to the SOA elections process and its impact from an historical and future perspective. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4

Description: This article lists and describes the year 2000 scenario developed from the Delphi survey of Futurism Section members. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 2

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: President Gary Corbett cites the major issues he sees facing the SOA: education and examinations, research, actuarial principles, strengthening the profession, the future of the actuary/the actuary of the future, and employee benefits.

Description: This article highlights the nonroutine actions taken by the Board of Governors on January 21, 1988, in Chicago, Illinois.

Description: This article discusses the highlights of the 11th Conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries conference held in Munich, Germany on July 3-8, 1988.

Description: Vancouver actuary Bob Blake recently parlayed his knack for remembering odd facts into record breaking winnings of $82,501 on Jeopardy, television's most cerebral game show.

Description: In June, when champagne corks pop in celebration of the centennial of the actuarial profession, there will be something else to celebrate: the launch of the profession’s sparkling four-color magazine, Contingencies.

Description: I read with interest the article by Sheri Lynn Levine in the November 1988 issue of The Fibonacci Quarterly on ‘Suppose More Rabbits Are Born.’ Levine,like Fibonacci, assumes that rabbits never die and made additional assumptions regarding rates of reproduction.

Description: When I first became a member of the Society of Actuaries. I used to enjoy hearing, or reading the Secretary’s summary of the “nonroutine” business transacted by the Board. In those days I wondered how one determined what was “routine” and what was “nonroutine.” Somehow even the “nonroutine” often seemed pretty “routine!” with the benefit of a few years in the profession.