Description: This is an editorial about the format and publishing frequency of the Independent Consultant newsletter.

Description: Communicating value vs. service in order to gain clientale.

Description: November 2015 Independent Consultant

Description: This column highlights the visible activities of the EAS section: preferred vendor program, webinars and networking opportunities, and a survey of members.

Description: The author proposes an annuity clearinghouse to encourage employers to offer annuity accumulation products in their defined contribution plans. This addresses the lack of portability that is associated with, and discourages the use of, defined contribution plans.

Description: A summary of topics covered in the February 2011 issue of ‘The Independent Consultant,’ from the editor of the newsletter of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section.

Description: In this article, the section chair of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section, ‘EAS,’ addresses the growth of the life actuarial profession. The author notes the significant growth in size of the profession in terms of membership, but cautions that calling us a growing profession on this basis only addresses the supply of actuaries, not the demand. The article then discusses current efforts to address the question of demand, noting that the EAS is in early discussions with other sections and the SOA staff to develop some measure of future demand for actuaries.

Description: This essay, submitted for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, proposes an entrepreneurial solution to address the continued, unsustainable increases in health care costs. Under the author’s plan, entrepreneurs will “develop systems providing clear financial motivation for consumers to make decisions that minimize health care spending and maximize positive health outcomes. In so doing, health care providers must necessarily compete to offer the highest quality services at the lowest cost. By relying on the financial self-interest of consumers and free-market competition among health care providers, effective and sustainable systems to bend the health care cost curve can be achieved.”

Description: The incoming chairperson of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section discussed the section initiative for the coming year.