Description: This article is about the job of a personal actuary and applicable regulations.

Description: Undoubtedly you have heard and read a lot about the Society’s Image Campaign, which launched into full gear this year. As a member of the Actuary of the Future AOF Section you have heard and read about the Actuarial Pioneer or Career Pioneer program and its continuing evolution. These two initiatives fit together very well, and our section council has established them as two of our top priorities for the next year as we continue to lend support and leadership to developing these efforts.

Description: As part of the 2019 Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest, this essay posits that the actuarial profession should respond to other fields encroaching on its space, particularly software development and data science, not by a defensive reaction to establish a boundary between fields but instead by a welcoming attitude that seeks to utilize expertise from other fields while maintaining the actuarial role of comprehensive risk management and its hard-earned professional trust.

Description: Expanding the demand for actuaries in markets that do not typically employ actuaries.

Description: Brief article focusing on the future of the actuarial profession.

Description: The 13-year-old Task Force on the Personal Actuary. now aligned with the Actuary of the Future Section, has made tremendous progress educating the members of the SOA about this emerging area of practice.

Description: The re-cap of the last year by the chair of the Actuary of the Future section, Andrew Dalton. During the year, the section council has established and tackled some aggressive, forward-looking goals. These goals were shared in our spring newsletter. The rest of the article is an update the progress as a section and as a profession.

Description: This article looks at the skills necessary for gaining nontraditional opportunities.

Description: Argues that the financial and statistical data on loan restructuring practices collected within the last two years, since the 2008 collapse of the housing market, could be evaluated by actuaries and become a base for improving the existing models and developing new ones.

Description: Outlines the contents of the current issue of the AOF Newsletter which has a few features on actuaries in non traditional roles.