Description: The Society research program is gaining momentum. Seven projects have been approved, focusing on health, economics and insurance.

Description: Real estate practitioners are increasingly using “economic location,” rather than “geographic location,” as their primary analytic tool. That trend has gained substantial support among academics and practitioners who believe “economic location” is a more effective basis on which to build the analysis of risk in real estate portfolios.

Description: This article discusses what actuaries see as ideal components of a health care reform package with an emphasis on cost control, efficiency, elimination of fraud and reduction of errors.

Description: Risks inherent in employee choices of distribution options in terminating plans - A Canadian perspective.

Description: This issue of The Actuary covers investigations the Society is making or sponsoring to advance the knowledge of actuarial science.

Description: This article describes the changes that the Institute of Actuaries of Australia have made to their education program, with a particular focus on the introduction of the subject 'actuarial control cycle'. This subject provides the student the the generalized actuarial approach necessary for tackling a range of commercial problems.

Description: Discussion of the career of a health insurance actuary who worked in an insurance company, consulting firm and government

Description: This article provides information on how to navigate the Internet's World Wide Web and tap into resources of interest to actuaries.

Description: The author suggests that true actuarial method is a blend of all three modes of thinking, clinical, statistical and heuristic, and using all three early in our processes will make us smarter modelers. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: Book review of A Comprehensive Guide To Measuring And Managing Life Insurance Company Expenses.