Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. How do we quantify our unique skills and articulate them to nontraditional industries to enhance their awareness of actuaries and the role they can play in these industries? The profession has struggled with developing a strategic marketing plan for expanding actuarial opportunities to nontraditional employers. Part of the struggle centers on clearly defining and articulating the “product” that actuaries have to market. This role play helps clarify this definition.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses viable options for second careers utilizing an actuarial background. Society members who have moved into such career paths will offer their perspectives on: their personal experiences and options, the contribution of their actuarial training, how others view the actuary and current and future options available to actuaries.

Description: This paper describes the legal setting within which an actuary may find oneself when serving as a consultant or expert witness in a contested legal proceeding in the United States. Its purpose is to provide the actuary with what he or she should know to be an effective professional witness. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This is a short poem regarding actuarial predictions.

Description: Discusses the direction for actuarial research in the areas of experience studies, theory, and practice.

Description: In this session from the June 2000 San Diego meeting of the Society of Actuaries , information was provided about the Professional Development - PD - requirement of the new examination system and the role of the advisor.

Description: A brief survey of articles in this issue

Description: This article is about the challenging role of the actuary in business and how Canada's resolution to this challenge can benefit the profession as a whole.

Description: 1996-97 SOA President, David M. Holland writes an article soliciting clear concise definitions of what an actuary is.

Description: What does “accountable” mean? You will see how the accountability culture can transform spectators into protagonists following the Four Steps to Accountability.