Description: The editorial explores opportunities for the actuarial profession that can be achieved through innovation.

Description: The SOA president emphasizes the importance of actuaries maintaining their level of professionalism by always striving to inform and prepare the decision maker with all the possibilities, not just the quick answers or the minimum level of disclosure.

Description: This article discusses the need for more coordination and consistency in assumption setting between the pricing actuary, illustration actuary, appointed actuary, and financial reporting actuary.

Description: Discusses the direction for actuarial research in the areas of experience studies, theory, and practice.

Description: An article discusses using response keypads for greater audience participation at presentations. This participatory tool allows speakers to assess how knowledgeable their audience is in a topic.

Description: A discussion of funding arrangements that can reduce the costs of providing medical coverage through lower reserves or state tax savings, instead of through cutting benefits.

Description: This editorial piece presents an exaggerated example which illustrates the problems facing actuaries in their communications to the public.

Description: Article Portrait Of An Actuary by Moorhead in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4

Description: This article highlights the role of the regulatory actuary and gives advice to company actuaries when making state filings.

Description: This article discusses the idea of controlling health care costs through wellness. The author states that it has already been clearly demonstrated that actuaries practicing wellness produce more accurate valuations and earnings forecasts, are more skillful in product pricing and design, and are more popular with government examiners, accountants and even agents.