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

Description: Provides an overview of the Academy Health organization, its annual research meeting, and the SOA participation at that meeting.

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

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

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

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

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: 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: Preview of the December 2007 issue of the LTC Section news, including articles on individual claims, retrospective reserve testing, population health management, Alzheimers, psychiatric medication, and the latest LTC Experience Committee report.

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