Departments
INSIDE TRACK .............................. 6
Keeping It Fair
Linda Mallon
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ....................... 8
The System Works
Mary Frances Miller
COMMENTARY............................. 10
The Macroeconomics of Demographic Change
James A. Kenney
UP TO CODE ................................ 14
Are You an Expert?
Paul R. Fleischacker
SPECIAL SECTION .......................... 50
SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit
WORKSHOP .............................. 62
Liquidity and Capital Management
George Christopher
TRADECRAFT ............................. 68
Japanese Casualty Insurers Show Resilience
Sean McAllister and Elizabeth Cohen
AFTER HOURS ............................. 74
Mystery, Murder, and Scandal
An Interview With Victoria Grossack and
Alice Underwood
BOOKLINKS .............................. 77
Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of
AIG's Corporate Suicide
Review by James Lynch
CRYPTIC PUZZLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Strange-looking Concoctions
Tom Toce
PUZZLES.................................. 82
New Math
Mark Danburg-Wyld
END PAPER................................ 84
The Envelope, Please
Robert J. Rietz
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