Description: Actuarial science curricula at universities tend to focus on preparing students for academic and professional exams. In this article, I will share the value of student professional development and how it complements the technical skills taught in the classroom, using Temple University as an illustrative case study.

Description: This article describes the similarities and differences between two forms of risk transfer, then concludes with a discussion of the implications of this difference for enterprise risk management

Description: This article introduces CERA- Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst including information on the examination requirements.

Description: This article discusses the work of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force in developing accreditation standards for university actuarial programs.

Description: An interview with Weili Lu, the president of ARIA

Description: A special issue of the Annals of Actuarial Science, focusing on insurance data science, was published on July 1. As explained by the editors—Katrien Antonio (KU Leuven), Christophe Dutang (Université Paris Dauphine), and Andreas Tsanakas (City, University of London)—the theme of this issue grew out of the rapid and transformative developments in the field, with the increased use of computational statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence models in insurance applications. While the special issue has been associated with the Second Insurance Data Science Conference, held in June 2019 at ETH Zurich, the published papers come from a wider and very distinguished pool of authors.

Description: Read the August 2020 issue of Expanding Horizons published by the Education and Research Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Discussion of the merger between the the Actuarial Education and Research Fund and The Actuarial Foundation. The named of the merged organizations will be The Actuarial Foundation. Legally, the AERF will go out of existence, but all of its functions will be continued by the new, merged organization.