Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Year 2000 and Beyond: Society of Actuaries New Course: Applied Modeling Demonstration Charts 1 & 2 from that presentation

Description: Column discussing the SOA’s addition of the Decision Making and Communication Module to its exam process.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, GA May 24-25, 1999: Year 2000 and Beyond: Society of Actuaries New Course: Applied Modeling Demonstration: Charts 3 & 4 from that presentation

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provided an update on the progress of the American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a long-term strategic approach for marketing the profession to future users of actuarial services and to strategically position and strengthen the profession.

Description: Discusses time-until-death random variables, present-value random variables, and prospective-loss random variables that are used in the new book 'Actuarial Mathematics.' From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists were members of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Education and Examination Committee, who discuss their proposal for several changes in the SOA's method of educating and qualifying actuaries. These proposed changes are collectively called Future Education Methods [FEM] and Flexible Education System [FES], and they are described in a White Paper on FEM which the Society has distributed to the membership. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: The SOA's mission is to advance actuarial knowledge and to enhance the ability of actuaries to provide expect advice and relevant solutions for financial, business and societal problems involving uncertain future events. In session 110IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the work and findings of the Task Force on SOA Research Project Activity Effectiveness to meet that mission. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This article notes the many volunteer contributions of three actuaries who have recently died - Edward Lew, Charles Watson and Warren Adams.

Description: First of a 2 part series: The Actuarial Science Program at the University of Nebraska includes a course on Actuarial Roles and Ethics. In 1978 the students in this class sent a questionnaire to 265 persons, mostly alumni of the Program, aimed at finding out how actuaries see themselves, and to what extent ethical questions have impinged upon them. This article gives answers by 61 Fellows 60 F.S.A.'s and one F.C.A.S.