Description: Provides tips on how to build and maintain a healthy and reliable job-opportunities network.

Description: The Centennial Celebration brought the dawn of a new era in the way actuarial meetings are handled, said Thomas P Bowles, head of the meeting's steering committee. It set a new standard for meetings to come. Bowles enthusiasm was fueled by the overwhelmingly positive audience reaction to several innovations at the Washington, D.C., celebration.

Description: This article discusses the ACTUCROSSWORDS, the crossword puzzle published in The Actuary Newsletter.

Description: Editorial about two giants in the actuarial field, Reinhard A. Hohaus and James E. Hoskins, who both died in January 1987, two days apart.

Description: Actuaries are lauded for their technical and analytical skills, but aren't so well known for their communication and general business skills. Is this the case worldwide? The Actuary magazine spoke to actuaries from Australia to the United Kingdom and a sampling of regions in between to get their take on the topic.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Board of Governors decided in June 1996 to discontinue the printed version of the Record in favor of electronic distribution, with the objectives of 1.hastening the availability of session transcripts to the members, 2. reducing publication costs, and 3. taking advantage of technological advances. This article introduces the availability of sessions for the 1996 Society of Actuaries meetings.

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: Chronicles the genesis of The Actuary, and pays homage to its first editor, Andrew C. Webster.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.

Description: Article from The Actuary June 1993 – Volume 27, No. 6. A Humorous take about health insurance for pets