Description: [Title should have been 'Communication by Actuaries WITH Investment Professionals ....'] Actuaries working with investments must communicate not only with investment professionals, but also with senior managers and board members with non-financial backgrounds. Panelists show and critique examples of communicating such information using statistics and graphs. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 136PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session took place at the Society of Actuaries Spring 1975 Meeting in New York. The presenters discussed actuarial reports to management, including those chronicling past experience, forecasts of the future, including recommendations for change in response to future influences, and reports acting as alerts or warning basis to emerging trends.

Description: This seminar focuses on the nonactuarial features of a reinsurance agreement, including underwriting, administrations, claims and audit.

Description: This session discussion is about communications between the actuary and the investment officer and his department. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This is a teaching session focusing on effective communication skills including the importance of listening, effective speech delivery, and effective writing skills. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The speaker addresses the art of taking criticism and offers specific strategies that enable one to use criticism to his/her own advantage, including how to appraise the validity of criticism, dealing with the destructive critic, handling critical customers and clients, how to keep from becoming defensive, how to change your own behavior, and getting the critical edge. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: This presentation, session number 70PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. Panelists discuss the retirement needs of today’s workforce and how the various sources of retirement income combine to meet those needs, and how retirement income needs change throughout retirement. They discuss employer sponsored retirement plans, and the effect of these plans on employee behavior, and the issues associated with communicating to employees with regard to plan design changes and other topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the special problems and opportunities of a small company, specifically, tracking current developments, the role of the actuary, distribution systems and other actuarial problems.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.

Description: This panel discussion was session number 3 at the 2004 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting, held in San Antonio, TX June 14-15. The panelists explored the problems between actuaries and IT people, how neither either understands the other's perspective, with frustrating results for both sides. But the speakers feel that, “with some tolerance and understanding, both can profit from the other's approach.” A theme in the discussion was that better communication will improve understanding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.