Description: The financial services industries that most actuaries serve are fundamentally changing. So it’s critical that the profession change, also, to meet the new needs of those and other industries using actuarial services. This editorial is about the questions that must be addressed by actuaries who want to succeed in the new environment.

Description: Discusses trends in actuarial education worldwide, and discusses changes that the SOA is implementing.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ new Learning Strategy will influence and guide SOA education in both the near and long term.

Description: Resources to help actuaries advance their careers.

Description: Letter from the SOA president discussing the SOA’s new approach to professional development. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2010 Vol 7 Issue 2

Description: Discusses the direction for actuarial research in the areas of experience studies, theory, and practice.

Description: This description is taken from Morton D. Miller's report on the status of the Fund at the October 1979 Society Annual Meeting.

Description: This column highlights the recent developments in the Investment, Marketing and Distribution, and Smaller Insurance Company Sections of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A point of view article exploring whether actuaries can be considered “true” professionals.

Description: Over the years, much of the Society of Actuaries exam-related discussion has centered on structure, such as the number of tracks, many small exams versus a small number of large exams, ways to incorporate professionalism and nontechnical skills. Lost in those discussions is the process of continually improving the exams themselves. This article uses questions from old and new exams to show how the written-answer fellowship exams have changed to expect candidates to demonstrate higher level skills than in the past.