Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the future of nontraditional actuarial practice in the year 2000 including the areas and external factors creating these jobs and the education, experience and preparation that the actuary will need.

Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing the reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: Panel reviews practical and ethical problems in both the U.S. and Canada arising when an actuary serves as an expert witness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a look ahead as of 1982 at opportunities for actuaries in the 1980's and 1990's. Questions addressed by the panel included: i. Will traditional opportunities be reduced? 2. What non-traditional opportunities are available? 3. What changes are needed in our educational process? 4. How do we make non-traditional employers aware of actuarial skills and their value? 5. What will actuarial work be like? 6. Some perspectives on the situation in Canada as it moves toward more government ownership and control of financial security programs

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Presentation by a panel of historians on the aspirations of actuaries who established our profession in North America, or who helped to organize the four actuarial bodies formed in 1889, 1909, 1914 and 1916.

Description: Uses the occasion of the acquisition of a major insurance actuarial firm by a major pension consulting firm to make the case that there is only one actuarial profession, whatever our sect or denomination, life, casualty, or pension.

Description: These are the charts from Session 79PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting where the speakers explain the financial risks inherent in the Asian financial crisis and other, more recent crises. They discuss how such risks can affect other countries and regions. They touch on such topics as sovereign risk and currency mismatching. The speakers also comment on impacts on multinational financial services operations and suggest ways for the industry to prevent or better manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the World Future Society meeting held in July, 1986, covering such topics as business, emergency management, finance, new technologies, work, careers and more. The panelists will offer an actuary's perspective of this gathering of futurists from various backgrounds and perspectives.

Description: This session is about the practical and theoretical considerations in all-lines insurance operations, solvency of all-lines companies, and financial implications of all-lines operations, including investment of assets and Federal Income Tax.

Description: At this presentation from Session 79PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting, the speakers explain the financial risks inherent in the Asian financial crisis and other, more recent crises. They discuss how such risks can affect other countries and regions. They touch on such topics as sovereign risk and currency mismatching. The speakers also comment on impacts on multinational financial services operations and suggest ways for the industry to prevent or better manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.