Description: A real-life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study found amid-career actuary uprooting his family for a new job that involved promotion to Chief Actuary. Shortly after, he found that the company was in serious financial difficulty, and he felt he'd been deceived during the interview process.

Description: Today's pressure for profitability, coupled with a widespread demand for internal and external transparency, has elevated the importance of data and the need to understand how it relates to all aspects of an insurance operation. This article discusses how actuaries can better communicate with other disciplines within an insurance operation.

Description: What are the keys to creating the sort of actuarial career that leads to senior leadership roles? Is it to put more and more work into your technical skills, or to develop the 'soft skills' that make you standout among other actuaries? Learn one of the keys to self-marketing in a natural way, so you can make sure that opportunities find you.

Description: This article discusses how good posture conveys confidence and this trait is observable among top performers.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to areal life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study concerns an issue that arose while interviewing an actuarial candidate.

Description: This article is about how times are changing and we must adapt and keep up as individuals, professionals, and companies

Description: The author stresses that knowing your value, expressing your value convincingly and having an outstanding resume are key to landing your dream job.

Description: This article addresses how to best use body language to one's advantage

Description: Many professions in the US recognize that minority under-representation is a real weakness in an increasingly multicultural world. The actuarial profession in the US has acknowledged this problem. However, acknowledging the problem is only the first step in solving it. This article sets out the level of commitment that will be necessary to SOLVE the problem, based on empirical research that the profession itself sponsored.

Description: We will demonstrate three analytical tools along with a sample case study showing how they might be applied to a fictional actuarial organization within ABC Life. The goal is to highlight how they might be applied to perform a health check of an actuarial function organizational design. This can measure effectiveness quantitatively via benchmarking how an actuarial function might stack up against the industry and management expectations. The tools and techniques are critical for actuarial leaders and managers but are also relevant to all actuaries, since we can all benefit from understanding how our individual work efforts fit into the bigger picture of an organization.