Description: Discussion as to whether within an organization an actuary's regulatory role can conflict with his business-oriented role or be aligned with the strategic goals of the company.

Description: Article on the need for continuing education for actuaries

Description: In this article, the author reflects on the discipline process used by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and offers suggestions for improvement.

Description: By definition, actuaries are preeminent in making actuarial analyses. Nevertheless, in some areas, such analyses can be adequately performed by persons from other professions, such as economists and statisticians. This article describes the misuse of life expectancy data by the Heritage Foundation when they 'calculated' that low-income, single African-American males born after 1959 face a negative rate of return from Social Security. Unfortunately, this misinformation was widely disseminated through the news media and Web sites.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session covers the AICPA's proposed statement of position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional, long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. It requires new GAAP reserves for certain variable annuities with guaranteed minimum death benefits 'GMDBs'.

Description: This article is intended to provide young actuarial professionals and job seekers with tips on succeeding in remote interviews.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of the process for setting assumptions for cash flow testing of interest sensitive products for reserve valuation analysis under statutory accounting in the USA and Canadian GAAP.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, which is article no. 10 in a series. This particular article discusses the 1978 institute and faculty proposal on notation. A proposal presented in June 1978 by a study group of the Institute and Faculty Joint Working Party on Computers and Actuarial Notation provides an excellent summary of the problems faced by innovators in this field, as well as the consequences of clinging to the present notation.

Description: This article discusses the vulnerability of actuaries to malpractice lawsuits.