Description: Provides two opinions on the different ways of developing a career path.

Description: The Task Force on Special Interests conducted a membership survey regarding how the SOA could improve its professional development efforts. This led to a recommendation to form special interest Sections - which is discussed in this article.

Description: Interviews with several actuaries who are subject matter experts in the health field to get their perspectives on implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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: A review of the book 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert J. Myers, which deals with the indexing of Social Security and government employee pension plans in the U.S., Canada, and other countries, as well as private pension plans, for which the author advocates the voluntary adoption of automatic indexing.

Description: This is the third in a series of three articles brought to you by the Society's Committee on Professional Development. The first encouraged members to author papers, the second encouraged participation in actuarial meetings, and this one encourages you to develop yourself professionally by being active on a Society or other actuarial committee.

Description: Discusses a new SOA course on derivative securities.

Description: This author makes a few suggestions for how the ASB can improve the way it defines and sets standards of practice in light of the challenges actuaries face today. The author believes that ASOP's hould be promulgated by the ASB ony after a thorough process that goes beyond codifying existing practices.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.