Description: This article highlighs the activities of the SOA Retirement Systems Practice Area including research projects, demographic retirement models, Social Security, and professional development.

Description: An opinion about the consolidation of actuarial organizations.

Description: April/May 2009 Volume 6 Number 2 Bi-Monthly membership benefit magazine.

Description: Table of contents for The Actuary Magazine - December 2004

Description: This article announces a new research project, co-sponsored by a number of actuarial organizations, to evaluate macrodemographic and microsimulation models that could be used to analyze retirement and other public policy proposals.

Description: Two new Sections are up for consideration under the Society’s I provision for such units. To obtain permission to proceed, the respective organizers must show sufficiently widespread member interest. Any Society member may join.

Description: In this article, the author talks about fulfilling his childhood dreams of becoming a baseball statistician. After 21 years as a life actuary, the last 14 as an investment specialist, the author decided to pursue that fantasy, although in a way he couldn’t have imagined as a teenager. He retired from his job and started an adventure as a fantasy sports analyst [which abbreviates, coincidentally, to F.S.A.].

Description: February/March 2009 Volume 6 Issue 1 Bi-Monthly membership benefit magazine

Description: This article discusses the charge of a joint committee of the SOA and American Academy of Actuaries to define the role of the valuation actuary in the U.S.A.

Description: The New York State Insurance Department has appointed a committee to redraft and modernize its agent compensation law to account for new forms of insurance. The New York law, which has had a major effect on agent compensation since the early 1900s protects consumers from excessive expenses and generally has worked well.