Description: Announces the first major grant awarded to the newly formed Society of Actuaries Foundation to fund the development, production, and distribution costs for a major book on financial economic theory as it applies to the work of actuaries.

Description: In this article the authors review the book, The Elements of Business Writing by Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly, and highlight the basics of improving business writing skills.

Description: This article lists the winners of 16 research grants from the SOA, with recipients representing a wide range of expertise and geographic locations.

Description: This article highlights member survey results intended to assess the level of support for Society of Actuaries programs.

Description: This article announces 'The Actuary’s Career Planner,' prepared by The Society of Actuaries' Continuing Education Department and the Committee on Management and Personal Development. This is a notebook-style planner that presents a step-by-step approach to get an actuary from where he/she is to where he/she wants to be.

Description: This article describes the Actuarial Research Clearinghouse [ARCH] CD-ROM Project whereby the highlights of each Actuarial Research Conference [ARC] presentation are videotaped and then digitized and recorded on a CD-ROM. This disk is then used to develop a computer-based, user-friendly, multimedia summary of the highlights of ARC.

Description: This article is a summary of the presentations and activities at the Eleventh Annual Actuarial Research Conference, held from September 2 to September 4, 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. One of the key actuarial topics at the conference was the concept of clustering analysis.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management challenge between 3 actuaries. Readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?"

Description: Based on a decades-long study, honesty is the most important quality in a leader. This article addresses ways to establish trust with their co-workers.

Description: The author shares a template for how to ensure speaking leads to business and career opportunities.