Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that continuing education can be much more efficiently accomplished if it is planned, the speakers discuss the development of their own continuing education plans, in the broader sense of career and professional development. Another topic of discussion is the Society of Actuaries’ ‘Professional Actuarial Specialty Guides’ and the committee that has done a tremendous amount of work in putting them together. Participants are asked to review their career development plans using a self-scoring test instrument. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Speaker prognosticates about future trends in society and encourages the audience to embrace the future as opportunity. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about what do we need to do as a profession in order to prepare ourselves and our profession as a whole for the needs and demands of the future. Focus is on education, research, professionalism, and public relations.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists debunk myths, the conventional wisdom that actuaries have no place in the public policy arena, whether because the profession is too small to influence public policymakers, or legislators just don't want to hear from professionals whose work is so technical in nature and specialized in its application, or that It's not really necessary to become too involved in public policymaking, because what goes on in legislatures just doesn't affect actuaries’ day-to-day working lives. The panelists provide insights on lending actuarial expertise to policymaking debates. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.