Description: This column descrbes the Society of Actuaries' Leadership Resource System, an important new project intended to help identify, develop and support the many members who volunteer their time or are elected to leadership positions.

Description: A former health actuary, who became a health insurance expert witness, tells about her work, who she deals with, and how she gets business.

Description: This article describes the Society of Actuaries E-Courses on Corporate Finance: Introduction to Corporate Finance, and Decision Making and Communication.

Description: This 1995 article provides an update of changes being made to current and future Society of Actuaries examinations.

Description: This article contains updates about the Society of Actuaries examination program.

Description: This article describes the major initiatives which the Society of Actuaries has embarked on to assure that actuarial science and actuaries will be highly valued in the next century. Often called the 'redesign of the actuary,' this process has at its center the development of a new educational and examination system.

Description: The technological, globalized world we live in was barely imaginable when the organization now called the International Association of Actuaries [IAA] was launched 103 years ago. However, that world was a reality when the International Forum of Actuarial Associations [IFAA] was formed as a section of the IAA in 1995. As the quadrennial IAA congress convenes in June 1998 in Birmingham, England, IAA members will vote on a historic measure. They will consider transforming the IAA, now an association of individual actuaries, into the structure of the IFAA, an association of actuarial organizations, to maintain and work to increase the profession’s influence in an increasingly globalized world. This article describes the details of the proposed changes.

Description: This article is a review of the International Congress of Actuaries [ICA] meeting held on June 7-11, 1998 in Birmingham, England. The meeting emphasized that actuaries in many countries face similar challenges in dealing with their customers and the users of their services and in seeking to maintain the profession in their own countries. This was an extremely important meeting, held as the actuarial profession moves to a more globalized world.

Description: Introduces the public relations committee and its goal of promoting interest in the actuarial profession among students and for improving public awareness and understanding of the profession.

Description: This article is about the 20th International Congress of Actuaries that will be held in Tokyo from October 25 to November 1, 1976. The Institute of Actuaries of Japan will be the host for the Congress. Information about submitting papers for this meeting is included in the article.