Description: It’s Fun To Be An Expert! by William C. Cutlip from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, June 2003, Issue No. 2.

Description: In this article, Sam Phillips interviews Charles McClenahan, who provides litigation support and expert testimony, primarily as a ‘pioneer’ in the field of casualty actuarial forensics. McClenahan describes the type of work he does, which includes ‘cases involving actuarial malpractice, insurance company solvency standards, anti–trust, intellectual property, fraud, voidable preference, damages modeling, applicability of actuarial standards, reinsurance collectability and, in one case, arson and murder.’

Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: This article describes the results of a survey of 27 members of the Society holding nontraditional jobs. These actuaries were contacted by the Society’s Career Encouragement Committee’s Subcommittee on Actuarial Opportunities, and the results are interesting. All of the individuals have maintained their membership, yet some of them are in fields which are not very actuarial, such as physician and one who builds restaurants for a fast food chain.

Description: This article summarizes a presentation at an SOA annual meeting session, “Opening Up Your Company to the Use of Actuaries in Nontraditional Roles.”

Description: The 13-year-old Task Force on the Personal Actuary. now aligned with the Actuary of the Future Section, has made tremendous progress educating the members of the SOA about this emerging area of practice.

Description: As part of the 2019 Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest, this essay posits that the actuarial profession should respond to other fields encroaching on its space, particularly software development and data science, not by a defensive reaction to establish a boundary between fields but instead by a welcoming attitude that seeks to utilize expertise from other fields while maintaining the actuarial role of comprehensive risk management and its hard-earned professional trust.

Description: This is a paper on how to become the go-to person or in other words, the person that stands out from the competition and gets better assignments through writing articles which show your ability to think strategically about client issues.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The Actuary of the Future section sponsored three sessions at each of the 2005 Society of Actuaries Spring Meetings: the Life Meeting May 23-24, 2005 and the Health/Pension Meeting June 15-17, 2005, both of which took place in New Orleans.