Description: This article has been reprinted from the first issue of the Actuary of the Future newsletter.

Description: Cassie He and Linda Liu, two actuarial students invite Dave Pelletier, an actuary with 38-year experience to share with us his career experience and his insightful views on the future of the actuarial profession.

Description: The Professional Development Committee is an SOA board of directors appointed committee that has overall responsibility for managing the development of the professional development (PD) curriculum.

Description: discussion of the Product Development Section’s plans for the annual meeting.

Description: This article describes the LEARN program which provides state regulators with a convenient means of obtaining the knowledge base needed to understand how reinsurance works. It is an update of the article originally published in the July 2011 issue Reinsurance News.

Description: General Section news.

Description: Description of rationale and benefits of moving newsletter to a digital format

Description: What it takes to lead teams is significantly different from what it takes to excel as an individual contributor. A leader's first mistakes is to think they have to do the same things they did before just with more volume and greater speed. Leading a team requires a transition to new behaviors and mindset. This article attempts to give you a few ideas to make the transition from leading yourself to leading others

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Preston C. Bassett. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1985, Vol. 37.

Description: On October 19, 2011, the Social Insurance & Public Finance [SIPF] Section sponsored a session at the Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Chicago on the impacts of the federal health legislation called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA]. This article summarizes the more salient comments of the panelists at that session.