Description: The Health Section Council Chairperson looks back at a historic year for the health care industry, and what it means for health actuaries.

Description: Discusses efforts and accomplishments of first 3 years of the Financial Reporting Section and new undertakings.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: The letter from the president provides background and updates in the development of the Society of Actuaries’ General Insurance specialty track.

Description: E-courses available from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Introduces the Reinsurance Section, its purpose, and recent activities.

Description: The basic thesis of this paper is that student capability to iNteract with new problems can be significantly increased by frequently exposing them to Written derivations, verbal-Intuitive justification of formulae and core sets of Comprehensive techniques by which to approach problems. Both instructor composition of problem resources for presentation and student practice of these problem resources can be achieved by semi-mechanical procedures accessible to everyone. For brevity we shall refer to this type of instruction by the acronym WINC. Presented at the 30th Actuarial Research Conference, August 17-19, 1995, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania

Description: Presented at June 2010 Health Meeting. Discusses Section research projects, professional development programs, member survey results, member value task force project, 'Bending the Cost Curve' presentation on ways to reduce healthcare cost trends and create a sustainable healthcare system, and market research results on opportunities for actuaries.

Description: Debriefing of activities at the Third African Actuarial Congress held on April 2013 in Lomé, Togo, and brief description of the status of the actuarial profession in a few Western African countries..

Description: E-courses available from the Society of Actuaries.