Description: This column highlights the recent developments in the Investment, Marketing and Distribution, and Smaller Insurance Company Sections of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article is a brief review of the book “Crime by Computer,” by Donn B. Parker. If you have from time to time become concerned about the security of computer programs records and transactions, this book will give little comfort.

Description: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: This article is a review of Peter F. Drucker’s 1980 book ‘Managing in Turbulent Times.’ The reviewer notes that this is a troubling book ‘to anyone familiar with the unsettled outlook for our economic, political, and social environment,’ because of Mr. Drucker’s credibility as a management analyst, and because ‘the turbulent times that he identifies call for changes in management attitudes and practices that are difficult to make.’

Description: This column lists articles and other forms of media The Actuary’s contributing editors feel will be of interest to their fellow actuaries.

Description: Read an interview with SOA presidential candidate Barnet N. Berin, Managing Director and Chief Actuary for William M. Mercer, Inc. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: An article provides a look at traveling overseas for actuarial work. Questions, concerns and tips for consideration in accepting an overseas assignment.

Description: This column highlights the recent developments in the Financial Reporting, Long Term Care Insurance, and Management & Personal Development Sections of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This column highlights the recent activities of the Society of Actuaries and lists professional development opportunities.

Description: Education department article that outlines the new SOA General Insurance fellowship track that puts the SOA in the position of offering actuarial education in the full range of actuarial practice areas.