Description: At its November meeting, the Society of Actuaries Board considered the report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force and approved the Task Force's recommendations regarding accreditation and 'alternative route'.

Description: An overview of the recent history of the SOA Education system.

Description: The actuarial profession is marching into the age of Big Data. Increasingly, employers in various actuarial fields are requiring new hires to have sophisticated knowledge in statistics and data science. To meet the new demands from the industry and the profession, one of the key additions to the SOA’s new curriculum is an exam in Statistics for Risk Modeling (SRM) which includes modern statistical and data science techniques. There is also a new proctored project on Predictive Analytics, as a capstone requirement following the completion of the SRM Exam. At the University of Toronto, we recently underwent a major actuarial science curriculum redesign, in order to stay current with new trends and demand from the profession and in line with the new professional curriculum.

Description: The February/March 2016 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Issue 38 of Actuary of the Future newsletter, November 2015

Description: The article describes the history of the actuarial sciences program at UBA, the relationship with the SOA LAC and its main objectives in the region.

Description: This Call For Papers promotes the Tenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference 3rd and 4th of September, 2014 at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. The key theme of Longevity 10 is “Why longevity risk transfer makes economic sense [for insurers and investors]

Description: This is a 2006 draft of SOA Accreditation of Academic Actuarial Science Programs that was offered for review and comments. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.