Description: Author asserts that actuaries are arguably better at analyzing and interpreting risk than any other professional. The exhaustive exams teach us how to manage risk, not eliminate it. If the profession is to continue to flourish, it will be vital to take this idea and apply it to one’s career too.

Description: This fact sheet about the Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst 'CERA' designation describes the credential, the impact on businesses of having CERA certified personnel, and the CERA curriculum.

Description: This article introduces CERA- Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst including information on the examination requirements.

Description: After an initial SOA Board review of the proposal in March 2016, there were further meetings of the Task Force and additional feedback received from employers and actuarial associations. There was approval of the transition rules and Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA) requirements by the Education Executive Group.

Description: This 1978 session discussed actuarial certifications and opinions rendered with emphasis on i. The who, what, how and by whom, and 2. Underlying methods, principles, practices and so forth and the disclosure thereof. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses 3 current concerns of the UK's Institute Of Actuaries and the Society Of Actuaries: education and travel time, the pension/retirement system, professional conduct.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Highlights objectives of the IFAA, the relationship with its 43 member actuarial associations, and current issues under consideration, including: international accounting standards for retirement benefits, other employee benefit costs, and a possible new global education syllabus for actuaries after 2005.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: The 2016 Transition Rules for ASA Candidates provides the transition credit candidates will receive if they have completed a current requirement by July 1, 2018. Candidates who have completed requirements under previous systems have them first moved to the current system using previous transition rules and then moved to the new system.