Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about what do we need to do as a profession in order to prepare ourselves and our profession as a whole for the needs and demands of the future. Focus is on education, research, professionalism, and public relations.

Description: Table of contents for Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 3 in San Francisco on June 14-15, 1990.

Description: This article highlights the accomplishments of the Actuarial Foundation. In keeping with its policy of partnering with other organizations as a way of leveraging resources, the Foundation developed new relationships in 2000 while continuing to nourish established ones. From: The Actuary, December 2000, volume 34, issue 10.

Description: Provides highlights of the results of a 1985 Career Encouragement Committee Survey, which solicited information from 1,400 U.S. and Canadian employers about their actuary and student hiring processes. 270 companies responded.

Description: In this third issue of International News in 2022, we feature a contribution by SCOR, a leading reinsurer, highlighting the Actuarial Awards that SCOR presents annually, since 1996, to the best academic work in actuarial science, with annual prizes in several countries throughout the world. We also feature an article by Jessica Leong, FCAS, on barriers that Asian women must overcome to become leaders. Jessica recounts her own experience and how in overcoming some challenges she became the first Asian president of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Description: The chair of the International Section of the SOA reports to the section members.

Description: In this fifth issue of International News of 2022, we feature the following contributions: (1) Ruben John John Callo, FSA, FIAA, FLMI, and the SOA’s Ambassador to Australia under the Ambassador Program , presents an illustrative study aimed at helping consumers choose life insurance products using the “customer value per dollar” methodology, and although examples included relate to the Australian market, the methodological principles can be adopted in other markets; (2) Shirley Z. Song, FSA, MAAA, Member of the International Section Council, Josh Dobiac, MS,CAIA, and Yang Jing, deal with the Targeted Improvements to the Accounting of Long-Duration Contracts (LTDI), and the fact that both IFRS and US GAAP frameworks are evolving into a new financial reporting framework. The implications for US insurers are discussed.

Description: This article discusses the results from the 1999 SOA member survey. The survey's findings send some clear signals about approaches to developing new and better programs and improving current ones. from The Actuary, February 2000, volume 34, issue 2.

Description: This 2007 article from U.S. News & World Report by Paul J. Lim and Emily Brandon is about households retiring with less assets saved than was planned. It references an Employee Benefit Research Institute study and includes quotes from Anna Rappaport, FSA.

Description: This article discusses the volunteerism activities of seven actuaries, both within and outside of the actuarial community, and encourages wider member participation along with ideas for volunteer activities. From The Actuary 2000, Vol. 34, No. 2