Description: The author discusses ways to grow your list of business contacts through the use of email, particularly about the proper use of e-blasts. Some of the advantages of this method the author notes are flexibility with format, saving time since the same email goes to all contacts, and providing a way to systematize your communications with your business contacts.

Description: The editor’s summary of topics covered in the May 2011 issue of The Independent Consultant, the newsletter of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section.

Description: This article provides an overview of the new Financial and Health Economics module now requried for all FSA's.

Description: Discusses highlights of the recent survey sent to all 9,435 active Canadian and U.S. members of the SOA.

Description: Enclosed with this issue of The Actuary is a synopsis of the Report of the SOA Task Force on the Actuary of the Future, referred to in Gary Corbett’s presidential address last year.

Description: Final regulations imposing Continuing Professional Education CPE requirements for enrolled actuaries in the United States were promulgated recently by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries. The Joint Board was established by federal law ERISA in 1974 to regulate pension actuaries. Certain pension actuarial certifications required by ERISA must be performed by an enrolled actuary As described below, the CPE requirements will cause some administrative inconvenience for enrolled actuaries but - with certain notable exceptions - will not affect our behavior.

Description: An article reporting the death of Ernest J. Oglesby, a retired professor of mathematics. From The Actuary Vol. 23, No. 8.

Description: This article chronicles those who have had the FSA designation for 50 years or more, now numbering 100.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 5 that talks about the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Development section.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986, Volume 20, No. 6, on actuarial research. Early movement in the research direction came in the '60s with the organization of annual Actuarial Research Conferences at campus locations, followed by the publication of ARCH, both under the sponsorship of what was then known as the Research Committee. The notable research development of the '70s was the formation of the Actuarial Education and Research Fund, a profession-wide attempt to encourage the development of new actuarial knowledge. In the early '80s the Society began to organize for a serious research effort, directed particularly toward the improvement of its experience studies.