Description: This article discusses exam requirements for the actuarial profession in the Philippines. From The Actuary, December 1972, Vol. 6, No. 10.

Description: This article discusses a new policy which clarifies the permissible usage of Society of Actuaries designations and titles.

Description: Introduces the public relations committee and its goal of promoting interest in the actuarial profession among students and for improving public awareness and understanding of the profession.

Description: This article is a review of the International Congress of Actuaries [ICA] meeting held on June 7-11, 1998 in Birmingham, England. The meeting emphasized that actuaries in many countries face similar challenges in dealing with their customers and the users of their services and in seeking to maintain the profession in their own countries. This was an extremely important meeting, held as the actuarial profession moves to a more globalized world.

Description: It was inevitable with China being recognized as the largest insurance market with its 1.2 billion people that the importance of the actuary would quickly emerge. This article is about the Society of Actuaries donating a substantial collection of actuarial education materials to the Chinese Actuarial Association [CAA] to help develop its curriculum and symbolically support its efforts.

Description: Earlier this year the CAS Constitution was amended to reflect a revised statement of purpose. It reads: The purpose of the Casualty Actuarial Society is to advance the body of knowledge of actuarial science in applications other than life insurance, to establish and maintain standards of qualifications for membership, to promote and maintain high standards of conduct and competence for the members, and to increase the awareness of actuarial science.

Description: The coordinator of the task force which prepared Manhart Brief, for a court case on sex discrimination in pension rates, responds to criticism.

Description: A discussion of how to define the actuarial profession, and how actuaries can engage in shaping that definition as it evolves over the coming decade.

Description: The SOA president honors those who have helped him achieve his professional goals, and offers ideas on ways to help others grow and thrive within the profession.

Description: Author is Liaison Representative to the American Statistical Association and the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. He discusses future joint meetings and sessions of the American Statistical Association and the SOA.