Description: Attempting to define what actuaries do from a student's perspective

Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.

Description: Writing tips for actuaries – skipping the usual guidelines you get in most books on writing. They represent a half century of personal successes and failures.

Description: A personal account of an international assignment opportunity in Switzerland.

Description: Discusses the outcome of AOF council Face-to-Face meeting, and direction for the coming year.

Description: Description of AOF's April 2018 webcast with Penn State students, as well as the questions raised during the webcast and key takeaways.

Description: Hosting an event for Canadian students with funding from the SOA, CIA and CAS for the first actuarial conference of its kind in Atlantic Canada.

Description: The author espouses the value of actuaries business skills, notes the name change of the Ambassador program to the Career Pioneer Program, and highlights other articles in the issue.

Description: The author presents his firm's approach enabling their actuaries to communicate more broadly.

Description: A roundtable discussion of changes in the nature of actuarial work and the skills actuaries will need to be successful in the future.