Description: The speakers at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting share their experience and insight on staff building. The focus is on teamwork, delegation, motivation, coaching and individual development.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists, discussing their own experiences in Canada and the U.S., present their views on why they chose to leave insurance companies for a consulting career. Their individual experiences include joining existing firms, as well as starting a practice as an independent consultant. The panelists discuss the tradeoffs between an insurance company career and consulting, and how to start a consulting practice, including skills needed, marketing, financing, and finding a niche. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the current public image of the life insurance industry, and whether life insurers meet or are able to meet public expectations. They examine the differences between the public’s outside view and the actuary's view from the inside, how they differ, and what the actuary can do to improve the industry’s image, as an educator and communicator. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session explains how there is a fuzzy boundary between the actuarial area and the non-actuarial information technology 'IT' departments at most insurance companies. Panelists share first-hand experience of working relationships between actuarial and IT departments and the problems they have encountered.

Description: In recognition that project leadership for many insurance-company projects is left to the actuaries, the panelists discuss project management. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The presenters examine the role of product actuaries as marketers, discussing distinctions between marketing and sales, competitive analysis, including the technical perspective and agent input, market research, defining client needs and marketing opportunities, statistical marketing methods, educational/professional mindset, and the requirements to perform the role effectively. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the re-engineering process as it is being undertaken in many companies, how it is applied to the actuarial function, and how technology can be used to facilitate the change. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.