Description: This article is about actuaries succeeding in non-insurance environments. These pioneers of the profession are creating a new paradigm for the future. Most of those actuaries have similar traits: vision, ability to 'think out of the box,' initiative, desire, ability to take risk, a high level of intelligence, creativity, leadership, and industry standing. All of those traits plus actuarial skills and training equal a powerful combination.

Description: Meet Nathan Pohle. Nathan is part of a new wave of actuaries bringing diverse perspectives to change the game in life insurance. Armed with an MBA and unique analytics experience in the sports industry, Nathan is harnessing key learnings from Silicon Valley to help life insurance companies tap into the power of predictive analytics in new ways.

Description: Carol McCall led three teams – predictive analytics, health economics and outcomes research, and personalized medicine. The “river running through them” was that they all leveraged data. Her predictive analytics team eventually built a broad portfolio of models with some of them having a significant impact on Humana’s top and bottom lines.

Description: Discussion of the career of a health insurance actuary who worked in an insurance company, consulting firm and government

Description: This article is a follow up to the March 1996 article that introduced the concept of the actuarial counselor. Feedback indicates a strong interest in this professional direction and the author suggests steps that could be taken by the SOA or others to support this concept.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting focuses on non-traditional employment for actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting explores alternative career opportunities and how certain colleagues have moved from a traditional career to a nontraditional career utilizing their skills and background. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Panel reviews practical and ethical problems in both the U.S. and Canada arising when an actuary serves as an expert witness. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This article covers focus of the section council, progress on ongoing initiatives such as the Career Pioneer Program, and new initiatives including image building of the profession as well as support for actuaries in individual practice and/or small businesses.

Description: Since the world in which actuaries work is both expanding (through 'data science' opportunities) and contracting (since 'data scientists' are doing work formerly done by actuaries), the role of education actuaries is at a tipping point. Members of the Society who are in higher education and representatives from the business community will discuss ways in which the two worlds of business and education have worked together in the past, what can be done by each group to assist the other, and what the future may hold.