Description: Discussion of the activities of the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section during its first year and its plans for 2010

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and the SOA are collaborating on certain types of research projects as part of a bigger initiative to enhance the support the SOA provides to Canadian members.

Description: Overview of the new SOA General Insurance education track.

Description: Introduces the Reinsurance Section, its purpose, and recent activities.

Description: Outgoing editor, Gail Lawrence looks back at her editorship and remarks on the future of the health actuarial field.

Description: Continuing with the tradition of establishing craft guilds in London, the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, was approved on September 18, 1979. The organization has a charitable function, namely. to set aside monies under a covenant to be used for encouragement of actuarial research and education.

Description: A preview on the Spring Society of Actuaries meetings in May of 2009.

Description: Will the Enrolled Actuary replace the FSA? Maybe was the answer to that question, which posed the topic for discussion at a recent New York Actuaries Club meeting. This 1976 article is a recap of that recent meeting, discussing the implications for the SOA and Academy of the new federal designation of Enrolled Actuary for pension actuaries, and how that would play out with respect to the SOA’s professional designations and the role of the Academy.

Description: A point of view article exploring whether actuaries can be considered “true” professionals.

Description: Debriefing of activities at the Third African Actuarial Congress held on April 2013 in Lomé, Togo, and brief description of the status of the actuarial profession in a few Western African countries..