Description: The authors discuss current and future efforts to expand the services the Society of Actuaries is able to provide members and other stakeholders in China and to support the growth of the profession there.

Description: The August/September 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The April/May 2016 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The August/September 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Recollections from the diary of a young actuary of his first professional actuarial meeting.

Description: Our distinguished colleague Oswald Jacoby had never reported Alan Truscott in The New York: Times held a hand in tournament play as potent as the one he picked up on March 22nd. From The Actuary VOL. 16. No 6

Description: This article is about SOA looking for members who have an interest in the area.

Description: This is a review of a seminar at the 1987 Colorado Springs meeting of the SOA where the concept of personality types was introduced. The aim of the seminar was to create for each participant an awareness of his or her own type, how to recognize the other types, and then present some tips on how to use that knowledge to get results.

Description: This is a book review of 'Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices' by Peter F. Drucker, considered by some to be the high priest of management. The book is divided into three parts- The Tasks, The Manager and Top Management. The last named contains much food for thought, not just for top management but for the underlayer as well. The first two parts reveal Drucker’s knowledge of and insight into what is good management and what is not. Repeatedly, he makes his point by citing real cases and describing real companies. His occasional comments on the life insurance industry are pointed. The book is also noteworthy for giving us another law to stand alongside those of Parkinson, Murphy and Peter- Drucker’s Law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'

Description: Discusses spring SOA meetings field trips studying “Effective Business Relations Across the Border,” with speaker Cynthia Barnum from the Globalization Consulting Services.