Description: Over the past decade, a small group of actuaries have become deeply involved and more visible in insurance company mergers and acquisitions M&A.

Description: The SOA is shining a spotlight on its research activities as it migrates into the areas of public policy and other relevant topics.

Description: The Society of Actuaries is making a commitment to focus on diversity and inclusion in the profession, including the creation of a standing SOA Inclusion and Diversity Committee.

Description: This article ecourages actuaries to get up to date with the use of the internet as personal computing and electronic communications are changing the way we do business.

Description: Remarks on a recent series of articles in 'The National Underwriter' on risk selection and related regulation.

Description: The SOA president discusses how communication skills are of paramount importance to actuaries’ success.

Description: An outline of an additional method for exposure formula toll road diagrams, which supplements the usual one- and two-dimensional methods suggested by Gershenson.

Description: An excerpt from 2015-2016 SOA President Craig Reynolds’ address to members at the 2015 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, focusing on ideas to explore in the year ahead.

Description: This article discusses the idea of controlling health care costs through wellness. The author states that it has already been clearly demonstrated that actuaries practicing wellness produce more accurate valuations and earnings forecasts, are more skillful in product pricing and design, and are more popular with government examiners, accountants and even agents.

Description: This article discusses the need for more coordination and consistency in assumption setting between the pricing actuary, illustration actuary, appointed actuary, and financial reporting actuary.