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Description: Interview with John Robinson, SOA President-Elect and Vice Chair, on several topics of importance to the SOA.

Description: The incoming E&R chair for the coming year reflects on past accomplishments of the E&R council, acknowledges with thanks contributors, and looks forward to continuation in the coming year.

Description: This is a notice is a call of papers reflecting actuarial and insurance related themes.

Description: Why is adventure travel important to entrepreneurial actuaries? This article will address the question, and perhaps it will incentivize some of you, setting you on a journey of adventure travel. We certainly hope it will as we know the rewards.

Description: When a program host invites audience attendees to stand up and give their “30-second elevator speech,” you should jump right up and be the first to go. Not only will you be grabbing an unexpected chance to practice, but what you say in those 30 seconds may put you as much in the spotlight as the keynote speaker. This article shows readers how.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the creation of a Diversity Extension of the new University-Earned Credit (UEC) program. One of the SOA’s key strategic initiatives is to engage diverse communities to address key societal issues and to work to build a more diverse actuarial profession. The UEC Diversity Extension will begin investing in efforts to achieve greater diversity within the actuarial profession.

Description: Internationally, Health care (HC) falls under the General Insurance umbrella along with the Property-Casualty (PC) lines. Anyone who has studied reserving in both HC and PC will understand why —concepts and techniques are very similar except that in health care we use 24 to 36 months of data vs.. the 24 to 36 years used in long tail lines like Workers Compensation. As such, PC actuaries have historically put much more effort into reserving and the development of reserving techniques than we have in HC. Learn how these techniques can add value to HC reserves by improving accuracy and/or providing additional insights into the business. By attending this session, you will: - Understand basics of standard Property Casualty reserving techniques such as Frequency/Severity Method, Bornhuetter-Ferguson Method and catastrophe loading. - Take away some ideas on where these techniques can add value in your own reserve estimates. - Be introduced to stochastic reserving concepts.

Description: You are the actuary in the room. As you select, recommend or evaluate a pension return assumption, the process should be rooted in sound principles of mathematics, finance and forecasting whether in multi-employer and public sectors or certain private sector situations. Both theory and practical application serve to guide you with useful tools when providing professional actuarial services concerning pension return assumptions. Explore new frontiers in well-accepted underlying models and analytical (closed form) formulas.

Description: View the 2022 SOA Student Research Case Study Challenge.