Description: This section contains book reviews for, The Financial Dynamics of the Insurance Industry, Calculated Risk: A Provider's Guide to Assessing and Controlling the Financial Risk of Managed Care and Options and the Management of Financial Risk. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.

Description: This article examines the concept of "hard core" actuaries and offers examples of historical scientists and actuaries who were "hard core."

Description: In “Gearing up for Designing Your Future,” published in the May 2017 issue of Actuary of the Future, the author cited four heroes as his personal inspiration. This article is the successor, showing the glory of these heroes and how they can inspire us actuaries today, as we strive to live our best lives. Identifying your own Noble Purpose as an actuary and in your life makes creating a five-year plan for personal growth meaningful and motivating. What will you gain from reading biographies of famous people and the classics? To aspire, to approach eloquence, to emulate the poetry of how they put their ideas across to mobilize their publics, to elevate our own characters by their examples, to be fully equipped to make moral and ethical judgments, to master the primary tool, verbal communication.