Description: This meeting session was conducted at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Houston. The topic was an ERISA update related to insured pension plans. Topics presented included: value of Enrolled Actuary vs. FSA, the American Academy of Actuaries position on the EA vs FSA, funding assumptions, actuarial certifications, and special valuation problems.

Description: This article is intended to provide young actuarial professionals and job seekers with tips on succeeding in remote interviews.

Description: The 2016 Transition Rules for ASA Candidates provides the transition credit candidates will receive if they have completed a current requirement by July 1, 2018. Candidates who have completed requirements under previous systems have them first moved to the current system using previous transition rules and then moved to the new system.

Description: Article describing Actuaries Without Borders helping to organize an actuarial workshop in Vietnam.

Description: Brief description of the actuarial profession in Switzerland, the success story of the Swiss Solvency Test (SST), and some features of the insurance market.

Description: This article discusses the question, should the Canadian Institute of Actuaries ask the universities to assume the primary role for the education of actuaries in Canada?

Description: In May 1981 the Academy distributed an exposure draft, “Qualification Standards To Sign Statements of Actuarial Opinion on NAIC Annual Statement Blanks.” In it we read, with pleasure, the following bit of proposed wording: “Before considering himself or herself qualified, the actuary should have sufficient experience . . . With that experience the actuary should have . . . developed a healthy skepticism concerning data and other information proffered by others . . .” This article describes that the healthy skepticism was removed in the future language and the editor's disagreement with the ommission.

Description: This article discusses actuarial education in both the United Kingdom and Australia looking at their current issues and proposed changes.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 6 the authors publishes solutions to various exam problems.

Description: The October/November 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.