Description: This session at the 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses questions about continuing education requirements including current requriements and new ideas, NAIC requirements and monitoring practices.

Description: Highlights a visit made by the President of the Society of Actuaries to the Far East. Specifically, he shares his learnings about the actuarial profession in Shanghai, Bejjing, Hong Kong and Taipei, locations that contain more than 6 percent of the SOA membership.

Description: The author discusses riding the globalization wave. To walk on water in the information flood and the foreseeable globalization wave, we need the highest business ethical standards, the wisdom to make informed decisions, and the willingness to have an open-mind with patience to accept and handle differences. All of these can be summarized in these qualities: responsible, caring and respectful.

Description: Commentary on the Actuarial Profile Survey by the Committee on Planning.

Description: Recruitment article for the Marketing & Distribution Section written by the Section Chair.

Description: A global perspective on risk and pensions, from a different perspective.

Description: Encourages us to learn why, how, to do better, and to live life as an adventure.

Description: Software vendors participating in the A Comparative Analysis of Claims–Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment study were invited to submit comments on the study. In this document, MEDai comments on their contribution to the study's source data, and their results.

Description: Article that provides an update from E&E, including the numbers of new Associates and Fellows, and a review of the changes for the Associateship requirements. From The Actuary, September 1994, Volume 28, No. 7.

Description: Notice of families with multiple generations among the SOA membership.