Description: An actuarial science student reflects on how COVID-19 affected the past school year

Description: This article explores the challenges of writing exams during the COVID-19 pandemic and lessons learned.

Description: The re-cap of the last year by the chair of the Actuary of the Future section, Andrew Dalton. During the year, the section council has established and tackled some aggressive, forward-looking goals. These goals were shared in our spring newsletter. The rest of the article is an update the progress as a section and as a profession.

Description: Discusses the various kinds of medical research being conducted that hold the promise of extending people's lives.

Description: How the speed of change is accelerating and how we could react to this as a profession.

Description: Actuary of the Future Chairman reviews the initiatives for the coming year including monitoring the continuing progress of the Personal Actuary Task Force, the establishment of the Younger Actuaries Network, and the identification and communication of emerging issues and trends.

Description: The authors take up two questions: • How do I create my Personal Development Plan? • How will the Competency Framework tool help me design my future?

Description: Opportunities frequently come in the guise of change within a company or the industry and the person who is willing and able to adapt to the changing environment can benefit from these opportunities. Whether the change is voluntary or involuntary, there will always be challenges faced and benefits reaped; and the more you prepare yourself for the possibility of change the quicker you’ll be able to adapt.

Description: This article has been reprinted from the first issue of the Actuary of the Future newsletter.

Description: Video submission to Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest