Description: Announces 3 new Ambassadors for China, South Korea and the Netherlands and provides bios. Additionally provides an update on Latin America and the Caribbean - discussing a presentation.

Description: The August/September 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This issue of The Actuary covers investigations the Society is making or sponsoring to advance the knowledge of actuarial science.

Description: Discussion of the career of a health insurance actuary who worked in an insurance company, consulting firm and government

Description: This article from the Actuarial Research Clearing House, ARCH, discusses that ARCH is an informal electronic publication presenting current actuarial research, outlines the requirements for publication and states the editorial policy.

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: Column highlighting education committee volunteers and the benefits of volunteering.

Description: This paper presents multiple biographies for those whose papers were published in Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1989, Vol. 41.

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.