Description: A brief review of a successful conference for young researchers in actuarial science and risk management.

Description: This article announces the top five graduate student presentations from the 44th Actuarial Research Conference in 2009.

Description: Overview of the session “Analytics You Should Know, but Don’t” which took place at the 2007 SOA Annual Meeting in which R, an open source language for statistical computing, was discussed.

Description: In this article, the incoming chairperson of Expanding Horizons addresses the section and talks about the section’s goals for the next year.

Description: The Expanding Horizons section chair discusses the SOA Doctoral Stipend.

Description: An overview of the 14th annual International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, held at the University of Toronto.

Description: Announcement of an open position at the Assistant Professor level in Actuarial Science at University of Connecticut.

Description: Increasing technology is available to create and disseminate educational resources worldwide. In response, this article advocates creation of open educational resources (OERs) that will benefit the actuarial profession with both recruitment and retention of members. Specifically, we describe OER contributions made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and more recently through the ASTIN Academy, a working group of ASTIN, the non-life section of the International Actuarial Association. We advocate pushing boundaries and creating new ways of teaching effectively for the future. The innovative use of technology and open-source materials is a way to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in the actuarial profession.

Description: This is a notice is a call of papers reflecting actuarial and insurance related themes.