Description: In this article, Society of Actuaries President, Donald J. Segal, discusses two topics: the importance of voting for a bylaws change that streamlines the U.S. actuarial profession’s disciplinary process, and what the SOA is doing to better serve actuarial clubs.

Description: This is the agenda for the 31st Annual Actuarial Research Conference held in Muncie, IN, August 15-17, 1996.

Description: This article describes Actuaries Online- the Society of Actuaries electronic bulletin board sponsored on the CompuServe network, with additional sections identified for the Actuarial Standards Board, the American Academy of Actuaries, and the International Forum of Actuarial Associations. All bulletin boards on CompuServe have three key pieces: messages, libraries, and conferences. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1996, Vol. 1.

Description: IACA, and IAA Section has a key role to play at ICA, held only every 4 years. This feature gives you a flavour of IACA highlights in Berlin, June 2018.

Description: The SOA is committed to meeting member and candidate needs outside North America.

Description: To share with my fellow actuaries a proposed approach to health care in America and encourage a dialogue with actuaries and others in order to advocate implementing the proposal.

Description: The Delphi method was applied to several questions regarding trends in product development. The audience participated in the Delphi survey to predict how economic and demographic factors will impact pricing over the next 7 years.

Description: This article discusses a study of the impact of the drug infliximab on Crohn's disease patients. This study had been approved in response to an SOA request for proposals for research on the health cost and utilization effects of a specific prescription drug.

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.

Description: Benefits of belonging to SOA special interest sections.