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  • What Would You Do? Responses to “False Pretenses”
    also clarify his boss's expectations. Assuming he is right about the company's poor financial health ... a job search.  If he was wrong about the company's financial footing and he and his boss can agree on ...

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    • Authors: John West Hadley
    • Date: Jan 2024
    • Competency: Communication; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
  • What Would You Do? False Pretenses
    What Would You Do? False Pretenses A real-life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, ... their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study found amid-career actuary uprooting his ...

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    • Authors: John West Hadley
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
  • The Actuarial Ethicist 3: DAC Expectations
    The Actuarial Ethicist 3: DAC Expectations This article poses a hypothetical workplace dilemma. ... responsibilities. One was to first review the mortality and lapse rate assumptions—including dynamic lapse ...

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    • Authors: Frank Grossman
    • Date: Oct 2010
    • Competency: Communication>Difficult message delivery
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
  • The Actuarial Ethicist: A Stochastic Cherry Orchard
    The Actuarial Ethicist: A Stochastic Cherry Orchard A hypothetical workplace dilemma in which readers ... Stochastic Cherry Orchard by Frank Grossman the I S SUE 3 9 JU LY 2 0 1 0 CHAIRPERSON’S CORNER 3 ...

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    • Authors: Frank Grossman
    • Date: Jul 2010
    • Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
  • Are You at Risk of Becoming an Accidental Criminal?
    Are You at Risk of Becoming an Accidental Criminal? This article addresses the serious ... of financial account- ing and record keeping of U.S. publicly traded companies. With deadlines for compliance ...

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    • Authors: Maureen Wild
    • Date: Jul 2006
    • Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Finance & Investments; Public Policy
  • Ethical Decision Making for Actuaries: Part 2
    less than 2 percent of the attendees said yes: Table 1: Seeking More Profits Did the CEo intend to help ... than 22 percent of session attendees said yes: Table 2: Still Seeking More Profits Did the CEo intend ...

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    • Date: Nov 2012
    • Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
  • Ethical Decision-Making for Actuaries - Part 1
    Meeting, an over- whelming majority said yes: Table 1: The Trolley Problem Is it permissible to throw ... overwhelming proportion of the session attendees said no: Table 2: The Footbridge Problem Should you throw the fat ...

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    • Authors: Frank Grossman
    • Date: Oct 2018
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
  • Business Classics: Dickens and Business Fraud
    Business Classics: Dickens and Business Fraud A look at business fraud as depicted by Dickens, ... he said, snatching some printed forms from the table. “B is a little tradesman, clerk, parson, artist ...

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    • Authors: Mary Campbell
    • Date: Feb 2014
    • Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics