Description: Column wrapping up the Pioneers interviews and highlighting past interviews.

Description: This article features two actuaries, one is a pilot and the other owns a cake business. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: The author suggests that true actuarial method is a blend of all three modes of thinking, clinical, statistical and heuristic, and using all three early in our processes will make us smarter modelers. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: Letter from the SOA president discussing a joint regional seminar in Asia, CERA global credential and more.

Description: Presidential address about changes in the actuarial world.

Description: This article is a profile of Jim Tilley, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries a founding trustee of The Actuarial Foundation in 1994. He responds to a few questions about his career.

Description: Discusses the purpose, goals, makeup, and initial accomplishments of the Emerging Issues Advisory Group, EIAG.

Description: This article discusses how the refereeing process for Transactions articles, which has been in place for some time, is being changed.

Description: This article discusses the recently formed Committee on Futurism, and provides a definition of futurism and the purpose of the new committee. The author notes that “in October 1975 the annual meeting of the Society had the privilege of listening to Dr. Jay S. Mendell give an address on “The Actuary as a Futurist.” Prior to that occasion it is doubtful if many of the Society members had ever heard of being a Futurist or of Futurism.”

Description: This is an interview with Fred Sievert, who has climbed the corporate ladder to the top of two different companies. Although he's retired, he is as busy now as he ever was, and is happy he has the time and energy to support all his various activities.