Description: Actuaries are lauded for their technical and analytical skills, but aren't so well known for their communication and general business skills. Is this the case worldwide? The Actuary magazine spoke to actuaries from Australia to the United Kingdom and a sampling of regions in between to get their take on the topic.

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: Enclosed with this issue of The Actuary is a synopsis of the Report of the SOA Task Force on the Actuary of the Future, referred to in Gary Corbett’s presidential address last year.

Description: Reminiscences of the original production staff about the first twenty years of producing and publishing The Actuary, and best wishes to the actuarial profession.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.

Description: Chronicles the genesis of The Actuary, and pays homage to its first editor, Andrew C. Webster.

Description: At least three of our members have received attention lately in The New York Times. This is a series of short pieces focusing on unusual and amusing stories of actuaries.

Description: Provides tips on how to build and maintain a healthy and reliable job-opportunities network.

Description: This featured several amusing references to the actuarial profession in various venues including an open letter, a story and a play.

Description: In June, when champagne corks pop in celebration of the centennial of the actuarial profession, there will be something else to celebrate: the launch of the profession’s sparkling four-color magazine, Contingencies.