Description: The Fellowship Admission Course FAC is one of the proposals contained in the White Paper on Future Education Methods for the Actuarial Profession, circulated by the E&E Committee in early 1987. FEM proposals were developed with three primary objectives.

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: This presentation, session number 85PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The panelists review existing and pending Actuarial Standards of Practice as they relate to life insurance financial reporting in the United States. Other topics include the nature of reliance on ASOPs by statutory authorities, and the composition and processes of the Actuarial Standards Board, the body that establishes the ASOPs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at a 1976 SOA Meeting, covered issues related to professional conduct and independence of the actuary. From the 1976 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 2, No. 3.

Description: Presented at 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Presents updates from the NAIC and its Life & Health Actuarial Task Force, and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Starting in 1990, those completing the SOA examinations will be required to attend the Fellowship Admissions Course FAC before the Fellowship designation will be conferred. The two topics to be covered in the course are 1 integrating of the examination syllabus and 2 professional ethics.

Description: How insurers can build trust with the customers, particularly in the context of micro-insurance.

Description: This article discusses how medicine is now inextricably linked with genomics, and within the clinical community the call is out for frontline physicians to become familiar with genetic science.