Description: This article explores how the SOA has advanced the knowledge of actuarial science through international partnerships and key communication. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: discussion of the naming of Patrick l. Brokett, Ph.D., director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of Texas at Austin as the third holder of the Thomas P. Bowles Jr. Chair of Actuarial Science.

Description: This panel discussion, from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion on development as of 1982 in the education and exam system. Topics included: 1. Goals, purposes and objectives of actuarial examination and education. 2. Critique of the current system. 3. Role of the academic community in actuarial education. 4. Interrelationship of the Society's E&E structure with that of other actuarial bodies. 5. Plans and future directions.

Description: Carl C. Cowen, Jr., head of Purdue University’s actuarial program, received the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award. This award honors extraordinarily successful and widely recognized educators whose teaching effectiveness has had influence beyond their own institutions.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This session discussed the purpose of the proposed Ambassador Program under development by the Actuary of the Future Section to focus on the nontraditional actuarial practice areas that are expected to play an increasingly significant role within the actuarial profession in the 21st century.

Description: This session discussion is about employer mandates, state regulations [retirement communities & HMOs, NAIC rate regulation exposure draft ], relations with regulators and relations with health care providers. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Formal report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force to the Board of Directors at its June 2005 meeting. This document contains general objectives of the task force, membership and structure information, and the group's strategic plan for implementing an accreditation program for actuarial science academic programs.

Description: This is an address at the Society of Actuaries 1997 Annual Meeting where President-Elect, Howard J. Bolnick, offers his view of the actuarial profession and the direction he intends to lead.

Description: This session discusses the role that the SOA, AAA and actuaries have played in developing/analyzing various federal health care reform proposals. What will the future hold for practicing health actuaries? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This article announces Stephen Ross, the Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Organization and Management at Yale University, creator of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, as the speaker at the opening general session at the Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks AFIR Colloquium.