Description: This column descrbes the Society of Actuaries' Leadership Resource System, an important new project intended to help identify, develop and support the many members who volunteer their time or are elected to leadership positions.

Description: Presidential address at the 1996 annual meeting. The president encourages actuaries to broaden their scope and skills, develop the attributes he discusses and make a plan to redesign yourself.

Description: An Editorial which the author talks about the world of actuaries and how important it is to broaden our perspectives.

Description: Article discussing the SOA’s addition of a new membership section, Social Insurance & Public Finance Section and a new section of the Web site, Pathway to Membership.

Description: This article discusses in detail how the Year in Review evolved and its significance to the SOA membership. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: The author reflects on his own personal experiences that led him to be an actuary and that support his feelings about life insurance.

Description: This article announces the meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in Kyoto, Japan, August 21-29, 1990 under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union.

Description: The author discusses a definition of an actuary that he suggested several years earlier, noting that the public has a right to know why we think we constitute a profession, and why it should care. The author’s definition is: “that professional who is trained in evaluating the current financial implications of future contingent events.”

Description: The Society of Actuaries recently distributed a White Paper on Future Education Methods, FEM. A White Paper on a Flexible Education System, FES, was distributed last year. The article's author urges all members to read both white papers and to complete and return the questionnaire at the end of the FEM White Paper in order to make their views known to the Committee on Planning.

Description: The secretary of the SOA looks back over the last five years at changes in the life insurance business and the actuarial profession.