Description: May 2008 issue of the Actuary of the Future Section newsletter, Actuary of the Future

Description: This article is about career goals and achieving them.

Description: The author discusses his journey to becoming an FSA at the age of 20.

Description: Overview of a seminar on effective ERM strategy.

Description: Karan Phadke discusses his experience as the AOF Section Council Intern.

Description: An article that explains the importance of lifelong learning--education shouldn't stop once you've attained your FSA.

Description: The author describes her experience for the past year as the section council intern for the Actuary of the Future Section.

Description: The author provides highlights from a March 2012 seminar on longevity risk sponsored by the Actuarial Society of New York (ASNY).

Description: David Januszewski looks at the the development of open source software in statistics. By comparing the virtues between SAS, the proprietary software and R, the open source software used by statisticians, he thinks that open source software "can and does coexist with the proprietary software" and "both have a purpose. "He further looks at the availability of the open source software in the actuarial profession and does not see "open source software sweeping across actuarial science like it has with other fields". Dave explains the possible uses and virtues of the open source software to actuaries and asserts that it may be beneficial that the open source is used together with the propriety software.

Description: This article continues the Passing the Torch Interview Series. Linda Liu and Amanda Jacques invite Simon Curtis, currently president of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and recently joined Deloitte as a partner in their Toronto office after a long career at Manulife. Simon shares with us his career experience and talks about the changes and challenges facing the actuarial profession.