Description: This article examines the trends facing the life and health insurance industry which consulting actuaries will need to address such as downsizing, outsourcing, technology and the need to be flexible.

Description: This article is about how innovative use of technology will be a key differentiator for future success and maybe even survival, and how technology will switch from a defensive to an offensive tool, aimed principally at driving revenues. The article addresses the question: How will successful leaders in the insurance industry use technology in the future?

Description: In this article the author emphasizes, 'It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it.' He gives examples of why volunteerism, changes to the Society of Actuaries examination program, continuing professional development initiatives, etc. builds better actuaries in order to continually enhance the pre-eminence of our profession.

Description: The financial services industries that most actuaries serve are fundamentally changing. So it’s critical that the profession change, also, to meet the new needs of those and other industries using actuarial services. This editorial is about the questions that must be addressed by actuaries who want to succeed in the new environment.

Description: This is the Presidential Address at the SOA annual meeting of October 1995. He highlights initiatives undertaken over the past two years to move the SOA from an inward-looking to an outward-looking organization.

Description: This article examines conglomerate management, the need for planning, and examples of effective acquisitions management.

Description: This article discusses changes to the Society of Actuaries educational and examination program. The eagerly awaited conversion rules for the new education and examination system have been published. Now the design team has turned its attention to refining topics and defining learning objectives.

Description: This article provides a recap of Colin Powell's speech at the SOA's Annual Meeting in 1994, entitled 'The Management of Crisis and Change'.

Description: An article that offers a reinsurance professional's perspective on re-engineering which resulted in strengthened and improved service to their clients as well as net improvement to their bottom line.

Description: In this article Deborah Adler Poppel interviews Patrick L. Townsend, author of the book Commit to Quality. Mr Townsend defines quality process, advises what the components are and explains why quality is hard to achieve.