Description: Article from the Expanding Horizons newsletter from December 2004 in which the section chair addresses the section and talks about the E&E syllabus and the issue with financial economics and also future activities such as the ARC conference.

Description: One of the sessions the E&R Section sponsored at the Annual Meeting in New York was titled "The New Math: Unorthodox Methods in Actuarial Science." The whole idea was to present academic results to practitioners who, in turn, could put them to good use.

Description: The AERF Committee of The Actuarial Foundation (TAF) and the Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) of the Society of Actuaries sponsored the 2007 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science. From Expanding Horizons, April 2007.

Description: This article looks at an extensive integrated collection of financial mathematical modeling packages available in R, a language and environment for statistical computing.

Description: The Education and Research Section has organized three sessions for the 2006 SOA Annual Meeting to be held October 15th – 18th in Chicago at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. These sessions include the traditional E&R hosted continental breakfast, as well as, panel discussions on Financial Economics and techniques for selecting representative scenarios.

Description: This article studies the syllabus as a dynamic, interactive teaching tool that informs and is informed by both solutions of complex course problems and student difficulties with these problems.