Memory

  • About this same time the baby boom generation hit the insurance industry, both in the ranks of agents and actuaries, bringing with it a lack of any memory of harder times.

--  William C. Koenig - [Northwestern Mutual]

1991 - SOA - Disclosure Systems: Can an Ideal Method be Found?, Society of Actuaries - 22p

  • Institutional Memory
  • Archives
  • Wisconsin Judge
  • GOV - Cleaver (I was here), Kanjorski (to Paulson)-2010 01
  • FCIC Interview - Bankruptcy Attorney  Weil - There's no institutional memory
  • As an organization, a serious weakness has been our corporate continuity and memory.
    • Better staff support will provide continuity and allow committees to build on the work of prior committees.
    • This expanded view of staff accountability and support continuity will make a difference for the Society of the future.

1993 - SOA - Walter S. Rugland - Address of the President: Challenging the Beaten Path, Society of Actuaries - 10p 

  • Ed Royce (R-CA):  And I think this hearing today proves that memory is very fleeting.
    • Memory in terms of the failure at the Federal level and the failure at the State level with respect to regulation here.   (p33)

2017 1024 - GOV (House) - The Federal Government’s Role in the Insurance Industry - [PDF-140p

  • The first survey we did was basically of retirees: anybody who has an FSA prior to 1960 and is still actively employed.
    • We wanted to see what they’re doing and what kind of lessons they want to share with other people, which would feed into the Ambassador Program.
    • It would be somebody you could call and say, "Hey, I’m interested in doing this line of work. Can you give me some pointers and some information about it?"

-- Teresa Russ Winer

2000 - SOA - The Actuary of the Future Proposed "Ambassador" Program, Society of Actuaries - 13p