Description: Professional advice is provision of an unbiased opinion by a person with training and experience that ensures that the advice is in line with current knowledge.

Description: This article is about professional responsibilities and the resources available for guidance in our actuarial practices including the Code, the qualification and practice standards and the counseling and disciplinary bodies.

Description: Third installment in a series of articles applying Buddhist principles to the challenges that actuaries face in applying their craft. The themes are adapted from the book "Awake at Work", by Michael Carroll. This particular installment covers the concept of "li" to the compliance aspects of an actuary's work, moving beyond minimum or literal compliance to a work product that provides multiple uses and meets a much higher standard

Description: The article outlines a shareholder value framework for pension risk management and applies this framework to pension funding decisions in light of rising PBGC premiums due to 2013’s BBA legislation. The article finds that the new legislation significantly incentivizes plan sponsors to increase pension funding. Moreover, many tax-paying pension plan sponsors can increase shareholder value by increasing pension plan contributions.

Description: This brief article from the new in 1981 Task Force on Guides to Professional Conduct, asks members for input in order to fulfill its charge for making recommendations on such questions as: What, if any, written standards of ethical conduct does the Society need?

Description: Proposes ways in which the credibility of permanent life insurance can be restored after the damage it has suffered due to insurance proposals, or illustrations, with unrealistic projections of future earnings.

Description: An article on a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving the updating of assumptions which resulted in a change in EGPs and DAC amortization.

Description: Intoduction to an issue of The Actuary focusing on the Manhart case, in which a controversial brief was presented to the Supreme Court by the SOA and AAA.

Description: Discussing the need to avoid plagiarism in business.

Description: Phil Bieluch's probing editorial in The Actuary's Dec. 2004 issue asked, Are we comfortable with the assumptions underlying our calculation of pension liabilities on employer's balance sheets? Even if this isn't our responsibility? From The Actuary, April/May 2005