Description: Author shares perspectives on the advantages and importance of working abroad in career development.

Description: Although many actuaries are employed in the insurance industry, opportunities are opening up in a number of non-traditional areas. These areas include the financial services industry, marketing/ sales organizations, environmental liability, and benefits management, among many others including this actuary who works for the circus Cirque du Soleil.

Description: An article that explains the importance of lifelong learning--education shouldn't stop once you've attained your FSA.

Description: Actionable tips to improve the readability of business e-mails.

Description: The article is a aggregations of perspectives on whether an FSA should also pursue their MBA.

Description: An overview of AOF webcasts in 2011 and upcoming 2012 webcasts.

Description: As actuaries, we learn about risk. We identify, quantify and assess risks. Ironically, however, because of our training we don’t see the greatest risk to our profession. The risk is: Our relevance and value to our customers is already and will continue to be diminished if we don’t make some fundamental changes now.

Description: This article summarizes the discussion from the spring meeting session: Managing Your Career Within a Traditional Employee Setting. Perspectives are shared from a consultant's view, and within an insurance company.