Description: Actuaries continue to expand their breadth and depth of skills, business acumen, and industry knowledge. The presenters will share the many resources available to actuaries who wish to expand their reach and impact, including an overview of the resources available through the SOA, how it monitors emerging actuarial trends and acts on a changing professional landscape, how it identifies appropriate research projects, and how the association strives to deliver actuarial education to ensure its credentials are prestigious, relevant and globally recognized. If you want to engage with the actuarial profession on a deeper level, this session will help you understand the structure and will inspire you to grow yourself and the profession in a positive, meaningful way.

Description: This presentation provides an update on actuarial diversity activities.

Description: Experienced actuaries will discuss various ethical problems faced by retirement actuaries in everyday practice. Actuaries practicing in other consulting disciplines will find the broad concepts of dealing with these retirement-specific scenarios instructive in dealing with the ethical dilemmas that may occur in their business.

Description: List of workshops and sessions with no written records. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: A list of workshops and sessions with no written record. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is a membership organization dedicated to education, research, and the profession. This session will provide an overview of the SOA and its various university programs and initiatives.

Description: This is the presidential address by former SOA president, Harold G. Ingraham, Jr. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: Presidential address by outgoing Society of Actuaries President R. Stephen Radcliffe. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 26PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The Enron scandal is likely to result in a more transparent disclosure of balance sheet liabilities. The panelists provide a professional/legislative update and offer pragmatic tips to valuation actuaries about how to respond effectively to increased scrutiny. They discuss the Corporate Accountability Act and the increased oversight of the accounting profession that will result, and the implications for actuaries working in accounting firms. They emphasize the importance for actuaries to be aware of the higher standards of independence and the need to follow actuarial standards of practice. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session covered the goals of peer review programs, types of peer view, and practical issues such as the level of detail in peer review, what to peer review, types of documentation, and legal issues.