Description: It feels safe letting someone else be the boss. But it's risky, too. The way to minimize the risks--no matter what your work--is to become the boss of your own career. Learn simple steps here.

Description: Professional Development tips in the area of business networking and relationship development. Increase your industry knowledge, expand your network by learning to comfortably engage with others in purposeful relevant conversations at business events.

Description: Adapted from Chapter 1 of the book "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, the article discusses the ongoing dilemma the actuary faces in determining the appropriate amount of effort and analysis to put into a given actuarial assignment being juggled with several competing priorities.

Description: The article covers the definition of a strength, how to recognize strengths and block weaknesses, how to perform a strengths self-assessment, and ways to effectively describe our strengths to others.

Description: Servant leadership article in the series.

Description: Decade and year in review.

Description: A review of the book, Problem Solving in Life Contingencies, by Brian Bambrough, F.S.A., 1979. This book helps a student solve life contingencies problems

Description: This is an article about the education provided for actuaries highlighting a paper presented to the Institute in London in January 1982 by W. W. Truckle, F.I.A., Director of that body's Actuarial Tuition Service. Written to provide a framework for oral and written discussion, it features questions rather than opinions.

Description: This article explores compound and simple interest and the accumulation function for the case when time t is a noninteger value.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 5, that is a guest editorial regarding actuaries in the community and how closely integrated and intertwined are the concepts of professionalism and community service.