Description: This session discusses what will happen to supplemental coverages under health care reform. Topics include traditional group ancillary benefits, health care reform supplements, and traditional individual/group niche products? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Presentation of proposals that are designed to further improve actuarial education by anticipating educational needs based on future change in the nature of actuarial work. The paper is divided into three sections: I. Current and Past Education of Actuaries II. Actuaries as Customers for Education and III. The Future Educational Needs of Actuaries and How These Needs Might Be Implemented. Followed by several submitted discussion papers.

Description: Panelists discuss the ongoing influence and long-term implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on the health insurance market in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss the results of a survey of 59 responding companies about their student programs, how their own student programs are evolving with the changing actuarial-exam structure [with the Flexible Education System, FES, and the Future Education Methods, FEM], and how student programs might continue to change as the needs for actuaries evolve. Many questions and comments from the audience. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meetings looks at underwriting for small group health plans of at least five lives. Various proposals for improving the small group market are discussed.

Description: Presidential address about changes in the actuarial world.

Description: Article discussing the SOA’s plans for growth.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the efforts in the SOA basic education system to redesign the examination process and the status of the redesign. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This is Cecil Bykerk's acceptance speech for the SOA's presidency for 2008-2009 delivered at the 2008 annual meeting. He reviews volunteerism, the education of actuaries, networking and promoting actuarial brand.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting offers basic information on the redesign effort underway in regard to the SOA basic education program, and, in particular, on the governing principles that will guide the redesign process. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.