Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: Part 3 of a 3 part series on Strategic Planning Issues. This document contains material from a speech given on June 17, 1997, in Singapore by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: The letter from the president provides highlights of the president’s accomplishments over the past year.

Description: The October/November 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The February/March 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The author notes that in the June, 1977 issue of The Actuary, he reported on a change in direction of the Society's Minority Recruiting Program: the discontinuance of the Lincoln University Summer Institute and the formation of a new expanded actuarial scholarship program. The current article is a report on the scholarship awards granted for the school year beginning in the Fall of 1977.

Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Jimmy Poon shares the insights on the benefits and drawbacks of going to graduate school from the standpoint of an actuarial student. He also offers advice on how to figure it out if it is for you.