Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1986, Volume 20, No. 4 that highlights the formation of the Pension Section. Early 1983 saw the start of the formation of the Society's Pension Section. A 25-member organizing committee polled the membership of the Society to determine their level of interest. An overwhelming 1,000 members spurred the Board of Governors to authorize the Section.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 6 discusses how the growth and evolution of the actuarial profession in recent years has created an increase interest in continuing education and professional development.

Description: In this article about professional development, the new competency network is descibed and and emerging job opportunities in health care analytics are discussed.

Description: This article discusses the agenda of the Retirement Needs Framework Conference to be held on Dec. 10-11, 1998 in Orlando, FL. The conference is intended for employee benefit managers and consultants, policy analysts, financial planners, product designers at insurers, mutual funds and banks offering products to help finance retirement, academics, and any professional interested in the issues surrounding retirement costs.

Description: Since 1977, the mission of the CAS/SOA Joint Committee on Minority Recruiting has been to support the education of and provide monetary assistance to qualified minority students African Americans, Hispanics, and Native North Americans to pursue an actuarial career. This article describes the 1998-99 activities of this Committee.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 8 that reviews Arthur Anderson book on the subject of Pension Mathematics which can be easily followed by a reader who understands life contingencies, elementary calculus, and algebra.

Description: The author encourages actuaries to broaden their skills so as to be able to become involved in larger business issues and not just be the numbers person.

Description: This article discusses the need to broaden and expand the actuarial profession. The author encourages adding new practice areas or enhancing existing ones.

Description: The August/September 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 1 that discusses the potential of APL as a basic actuarial programming language, particularly the applications involving ACT. ACT is a notational language for use in a time-sharing environment and consists of a comprehensive set of macro functions defined in APL.