Description: The article discusses the 1976 and 1981 restructuring of the SOA Fellowship examinations.

Description: This newsletter focuses on the increasing research efforts sponsored by the Society and offers a glimpse of the wide range of research now being conducted.

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

Description: This article discusses the Professional Development Committee's responsibilities, the Competency Framework which gives focus to the key skills that drive success, and professional development delivery methods.

Description: This article describes the impact of the global acceptance of the SOA’s Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst credential.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article discusses the redesign issues surrounding the new education and examination structure.

Description: Increasing technology is available to create and disseminate educational resources worldwide. In response, this article advocates creation of open educational resources (OERs) that will benefit the actuarial profession with both recruitment and retention of members. Specifically, we describe OER contributions made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and more recently through the ASTIN Academy, a working group of ASTIN, the non-life section of the International Actuarial Association. We advocate pushing boundaries and creating new ways of teaching effectively for the future. The innovative use of technology and open-source materials is a way to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in the actuarial profession.

Description: This article contains an analysis of fractional premiums and the loss of interest and premium in the year of death. It uses Jordan's text on life contingencies to illustrate a relation between net fractional and net annual premiums and to determine if there is any loss of interest or not.

Description: This article summarizes the treatment of changes in the basis for determining life insurance tax reserves under prior law and describes the changes enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It further explains the procedures for changing the basis of computing reserves under the new rules as outlined in Revenue Procedure 2019-10, the IRS’s December 2018 guidance on the subject, and discusses the uncertainties that remain.