Description: This column for the SOA’s education department describes the ways professional development has changed and lists some of the new offerings.

Description: Review of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, and author insight into the importance of actuarial checklists.

Description: This article names the keynote speaker for the 1995 Annual Meeting, who is George F. Will, a nationally renowned journalist.

Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: an excerpt from a speech discussing how experts can become so immersed in their work that they cannot see how their profession relates to and affects society. This is excerpted, with permission, from Mr. Anderson’s speech, “Strategic Planning for Corporate Growth,” to the Chemical Marketing Research Assn.

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: This article discusses how insurance regulation needed to evolve to meet the need for more understandable policy forms. This article was written before the Flesch Reading Ease test was in common use.

Description: Description of the job of a stockbroker in Britain and what an actuary can bring to the trade.

Description: Harding's opinion on an actuary's role in management. Abridged version of a paper presented to the Younger Actuaries Section of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries on March 28, 1967.