Description: The author announces that the Society of Actuaries is launching a new professional credential, Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, ‘CERA,” which will take 3-5 years to complete. The article notes a new CERA will qualify as an Associate of the Society.

Description: A discussion of the Morris Review in the UK: a government-requested review of the actuarial profession in the U.K.

Description: this article is a recap of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Actuarial Association

Description: In this article, the editor talks about the contents of this issue of the Risk Management Newsletter. Also mentioned are the three categories the newsletter tries to cover 1. Risk Identification, 2. Risk Response, and 3. Risk Culture & Disclosures.

Description: Josh summarizes key findings distilled from last year’s Pension Section Survey, and reports on a fifteen-item action plan that was ratified by the Pension Section Council in February for near-term implementation.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, that discusses our learnings through the 30 years of offering continuing education in light of the potential for mandatory CE.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial staff of the U.S. General Accounting Office GAO, providing a bit of history, the structure of the GAO, and explaining that GAO actuaries act as consultants to all the operating divisions of the GAO on matters involving pensions, insurance, and related issues. The author also revisits an earlier proposal for a Government Actuary, a higher level position responsible for all actuarial work of the Executive branch, as well as the GAO, and asks whether the actuarial profession should again support such a proposal.

Description: this article discusses the differences between International Pension Plans and Pan European Plans and when it is appropriate to use each

Description: An overview of how the actuary's role will evolve as technology improves.

Description: August Zilmer 1831-1893, a Prussian actuary best known for the development of preliminary term valuation, also made some observations on life insurance accounting that seem quite contemporary. Zillmer also wrote the first comprehensive German actuarial mathematics text in almost a century.