Description: Introduction to population health, a collaborative discipline that seeks to leverage all the determinants of health personal behaviors, medical care and the public health infrastructure, as well as the social and economic context at the community and national level to maximize the health of populations.

Description: This article is part of a series that periodically highlights personal careers and offers new perspectives on actuarial job paths. It features John R. Thompson, one of two deputy superintendents in Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. In addition, he chairs the executive committee of an international organization that sets standards for insurance supervisors worldwide.

Description: Actuaries are risk averse by nature. In order to keep up with the transformative nature of today's healthcare environment SOA Fellow Ian Duncan encourages actuaries to become entrepreneurs and hands-on business leaders.

Description: Looks at the non-traditional role of actuary Kim Johnson as a vice president of investor relations.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses the current expected mortality rate of defined benefit plans, what changes in this mortality rate are likely, will defined benefit plans be replaced by other programs requiring actuarial expertise, will retraining of actuaries be necessary, what we can learn from other places and other times.

Description: question and look for ways to make improvements on things by making them more efficient and intuitive. Mehmud did not study actuarial science in school. He earned a degree in mathematics and physics while taking courses like Asian history and skeptical thinking. In retrospect, he said, his exposure to a liberal arts education allowed him to view problems with a multifaceted perspective.

Description: Accomplishments of the past year and a look at initiatives for the year ahead.

Description: Survey of the experiences of actuaries working internationally.