Description: In this teaching session at the 1975 Society of Actuaries Los Angeles Spring Meeting, the presenter provides suggestions on how to make a more effective speech. Noting that our training and experience as actuaries provides us with the content for a presentation, this session focuses on the method and style of the presentation.

Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: This is article covers a session from the Annual Meeting about financial analysis and corporate strategy. It discusses: evaluation of external factors that affect the long-run outlook for the company, assessment of strategic opportunities and development of long-range action plans. 1975 Record Vol.1 No. 4

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. The discussion focuses on the economic outlook in 1976.

Description: The general theme of discussion was pension plan funding and cost. The specific topics discussed included: impact of ERISA on corporate funding strategies, ethical considerations involved in deciding how to address inflation in pension plan costs, actuarial cash flow projections, actuarial role in evaluating alternative investment strategies, effect of ERISA's imposed Funding Standard Account, and discussion of the paper titled Introduction to Dynamics of Pension Funding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1976 Vol.2 No. 1

Description: This session from the 1976 Fall SOA meeting is about pension plan problems of state, provincial and local governments included topics are differences between public and private plans, in particular the funding difficulties of the New York City pension plan.

Description: The session is about maximizing cost efficiency of mainframe computers used at life insurance companies. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting discusses existing and suggested life insurance products - adjustable life - which adjust to changes in need for coverage and changes in ability to pay. It compares adjustable life to universal life.

Description: This session is about the U. S. Social Security System undergoing a period of critical reappraisal with the costs and future of the system in question, and about how the actuarial profession should be involved in the process.

Description: Panel discussion focusing on managing health care costs.