Description: Welcome to the third issue of International News of 2024.

Description: Focus on the importance of achieving complete and accurate technical reviews of work products that contribute to decision making. As actuaries, we often face tight deadlines and the demand is high for our team members to provide results in a timely manner. Through investing upfront time into a quality review of our work product, with an added focus on professional excellence and ethics, overall time savings can be gained and an overall higher quality work product can be achieved, not only of the technical work being performed, but of the decision making that is influenced by the result of the work. At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to understand the value of technical reviews and the methods of preparing for and implementing technical reviews across a team.

Description: Learn from experts how to manage large projects, from managerial and technical perspectives, and drive teams to success. Actuaries are taking on more central roles over their career development, creating a need for skills to coordinate across large groups to deliver results. In this session, you will learn about the key elements within the lifecycle of a project plan that is applicable to any project, and hear from experts and your peers about examples that led to success. This is an interactive session where you will have a chance to discuss the topic with the presenters and other attendees.

Description: Dr. Kimberly Harden helps organizations shift from a traditional diversity model to one that emphasizes diversity, interpersonal communication, and talent management. She will discuss topics on bias and how to be your authentic self in the workplace.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: Study, discuss and explore the professionalism practice, code of conduct and application of the actuarial profession. Hear from seasoned presenters from mainland China as they cover several issues encountered in daily actuarial working environments through business cases and interactive discussions.

Description: This article describes why dressing up - even while working remotely- can help create work / life balance when the day is done.

Description: This article gives a formula for reversing failure into success

Description: Interview of Natasha Regan about her mastery of the game of chess.

Description: The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing has been named a new SOA Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE).