Description: Discusses results of author's recent survey of professionals in the viatical and life settlement, a.k.a. secondary insurance industry, to discover how actuaries could best serve this particular business.

Description: November 2008's issue of the Actuary of the Future newsletter.

Description: The author discusses his transition from journalist to actuary. His goal is to help 21st century actuaries to be the best that we can be.

Description: An article comparing today’s actuarial candidates to those of 40 years ago.

Description: Author shares personal experience with working on an exam committee and discusses the benefits.

Description: Author provides personal study tips.

Description: Author asserts that actuaries are arguably better at analyzing and interpreting risk than any other professional. The exhaustive exams teach us how to manage risk, not eliminate it. If the profession is to continue to flourish, it will be vital to take this idea and apply it to one’s career too.

Description: Process and challenges of a Delphi Study launched in 2012 to gather opinions on the current state of the SOA, the actuarial profession, and non-traditional opportunities.

Description: High-level update on three of the main developments in financial reporting: principle-based reserving for U.S. statutory, Solvency II and the IFRS Insurance Contracts project.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.