Description: How to narrow your focus or niche for business success.

Description: This column descrbes the Society of Actuaries' Leadership Resource System, an important new project intended to help identify, develop and support the many members who volunteer their time or are elected to leadership positions.

Description: An overview of the Actuary of the Future Section AoF, the Actuarial Society of Greater New York, and the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section speed networking event.

Description: The technological, globalized world we live in was barely imaginable when the organization now called the International Association of Actuaries [IAA] was launched 103 years ago. However, that world was a reality when the International Forum of Actuarial Associations [IFAA] was formed as a section of the IAA in 1995. As the quadrennial IAA congress convenes in June 1998 in Birmingham, England, IAA members will vote on a historic measure. They will consider transforming the IAA, now an association of individual actuaries, into the structure of the IFAA, an association of actuarial organizations, to maintain and work to increase the profession’s influence in an increasingly globalized world. This article describes the details of the proposed changes.

Description: A key to achieving the visibility gained by those who are truly politically savvy is to keep a clear focus on challenges, so that those become visible to others.

Description: This is the report about the Society of Actuaries' 25th anniversary celebration held in New Orleans, LA on October 28-30, 1974. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.

Description: The article announces that the first David Garrick Halmstad prize has been awarded to Dr. Phelim P. Boyle for his 1978 paper in the Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 'Immunization Under Stochastic Models of the Term Structure.' The article also describes the history of this award. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1980, Vol. 1.

Description: This article is about the 20th International Congress of Actuaries that will be held in Tokyo from October 25 to November 1, 1976. The Institute of Actuaries of Japan will be the host for the Congress. Information about submitting papers for this meeting is included in the article.

Description: A case study on starting the actuarial profession in a new location - in this case Kazakhstan.

Description: This article is about the current demographics of the actuaries who have been members of the Society of Actuaries, including its predecessor organizations, for 50 or more years.