Description: These 'Notes from the Editor' offer a run-down of topics covered in the August 2011 issue of The Independent Consultant, the newsletter of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section.

Description: Entrepreneurial Actuary by Mike Miele from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.

Description: A brief description of the current activities of the Entrepreneurial Actuarial Section [EAS]. Webcasts and a call for papers are described.

Description: This paper demonstrate how growing capital when businesses are failing and taking advantage of intellectual capital can assist a consulting actuary to become more successful and offer an alternative approach to expanding a consulting business.

Description: The author reviews the impact of health care exchanges becoming operational in 2014, and he offers ideas for efficient risk identification and ways to measure the results.

Description: Article describing how actuaries can contribute to solutions to climate change and other environmental issues.

Description: This article notes how “we can do much more at the company, industry and social level by combining what we know with other actuaries as well as members of other disciplines.” This will become easier due to social technologies that allow individuals to collaborate regardless of conventional barriers. The author asks “how do we use these new social technologies to leverage our existing actuarial skill set data in a way that creates value for customers and clients?”

Description: In this article, the author, an independent consulting actuary, discusses the process of becoming independent, providing advice on what you need to consider in making the transition from company employee to independent consultant.