Description: SOA executive director’s column, research on Asia insurance opportunities, e-courses, recent research and experience studies, and professional development opportunities.

Description: A summary of a seminar organized by the Vietnam Actuarial Community

Description: Chairperson’s column addressing recent and planned activities of the Marketing and Distribution Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article discusses exam requirements for the actuarial profession in the Philippines. From The Actuary, December 1972, Vol. 6, No. 10.

Description: In 2013, several sections explored providing new sources of content to their members.

Description: In this paper we will describe how richer actuarial programs can be provided if a number of schools with smaller programs combine resources by forming a regional cooperative or consortium. We have already formed our own consortium, the Southwest Actuarial Education and Research Consortium SWAERC. The strategies proposed here have already been used in SWAERC, and we will illustrate each of them by describing our own experience with it.

Description: The April/May 2016 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The letter from the president provides highlights of the president’s accomplishments over the past year.

Description: Interview with Ben Marshall, Best Overall Story winner of the 10th Speculative Fiction Contest.

Description: Discussion of the status of the Preliminary Education Working Group and the Actuarial Education Working Group, which were created by the Society of Actuaries to further the work of the Task Force on Education and Qualification with respect to preliminary education for actuaries.