Description: The SOA's Competency Framework for Actuaries is a tool to help actuaries make decisions related to their individual professional development and career management plans. It applies systematic, sound approaches to selecting professional development opportunities, focusing on the skills needed to go beyond technical and specific actuarial analysis. This is an Excel file that facilitates that process by providing a personal planning workbook.

Description: This template was created as a tool to help brainstorm ideas for session topics that are aligned with the SOA Competency Framework. The following table lists the eight core SOA competencies identified by the membership as being key to actuarial success. Every meeting topic will fall into one or more of the competencies. Aligning meetings with the competency framework will help create better professional development offerings to support member needs.

Description: This paper presents discrete interpolation formulas, specifically a new method of deriving some existing formulas. The paper uses graduation theory in the interpolation method. Also include is a discussion of the paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.