Description: A solicitation for letters to the editor of Expanding Horizons.

Description: Join this session to awaken your “Inner Actuary” and identify new, state-of-the-art resources and perspectives to discover purpose, direction, and value in embracing and growing the competencies for career and life.

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 9A: ASOP 56 - Modeling Begins in the Middle: Don't Forget the Beginning and the End 9.1.21 Recording

Description: 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session addressed the task of designing a new NAIC model valuation law embracing the valuation actuary concept, the development of a new Academy SOP specifying how cash flow testing should be done, and SOA committee research to help the valuation actuary to do a better job.

Description: Column from SOA president discussing opportunities for members of the SOA.

Description: Highlights the co-champions of the eleven Actucrossword puzzles in the last fiscal year ending with the June 1987 issue.

Description: This article is about the past tendency of actuaries to play bridge and the linkages between bridge and actuarial exams.

Description: I read with interest the article by Sheri Lynn Levine in the November 1988 issue of The Fibonacci Quarterly on ‘Suppose More Rabbits Are Born.’ Levine,like Fibonacci, assumes that rabbits never die and made additional assumptions regarding rates of reproduction.

Description: Learning excellence is of value to both candidates and credentialed actuaries learning new areas. Learning mastery and excellence requires 1) use of executive function (EF), multiple brain areas, for example, verbal, formal (algebraic), computational, and geometric (rule of four), and 2) goal-setting, skillful breaking down of complex tasks into subtasks each of which are simultaneously 2a) clear and specific, 2b) achievable in a short time and 2c) challenging. 10 examples are presented illustrating use of the "rule of four" to achieve elegant solutions to otherwise complex problems as well as goal setting using fellowship-exam approaches, approaches to multi-component problems, and skillful use of databases as visual organizers. The material reflects a new approach to learning complexity that is easier to use than the pedagogic hierarchies and unifies them.

Description: The author discusses expectations for incoming actuarial science students, emphasizing that a solid grasp of algebra and traditional mathematical skills is not enough. In addition, the author states that today’s business environment dictates that students be well versed and that their backgrounds include familiarity with complexity science.