Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved choosing between two actuarial candidates in a hiring decision.

Description: Throughout the past three years, the insurance talent landscape has experienced extreme shifts. Remote and hybrid work has become the norm, individuals have adjusted their personal and professional priorities, and a sense of empathy and emotional intelligence has become key to successful leadership. As the industry experienced “the Great Resignation,” followed by “the Great Reshuffle” and “the Great Realignment,” it was a time of evolution and ongoing learning for actuarial leaders.

Description: Chairperson description of current MaD section activity and upcoming webcasts and other emerging section content

Description: Effective strategic planning can have a profound effect on the development of your team and the growth and direction of your actuarial organization. This article shares the elements that will set you up for success before the meeting even begins.

Description: Looking to the upcoming 2024 year and looking back at the 2023 year in the International Section.

Description: An update to the risk management readers on what the JRMS is planning to do over 2023 to serve its membership.

Description: Read how to combine people management and mentorship to create positive and open environments and improve employee engagement and productivity.

Description: Description of the upcoming activities for the Health Section.

Description: This article is about how times are changing and we must adapt and keep up as individuals, professionals, and companies

Description: This paper studies actuaries' educational backgrounds and social relationships. The purpose of the study is two-fold. It looks at the educational backgrounds of actuaries and how their backgrounds affect their careers. By this, the author wants to see if things such as the major studied or the attendance of graduate school affected the time to attain Associateship and Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries. Secondly, the author wants to know if being in the actuarial profession has any effect on marriage and family, as well as to know if marriage and family has any effect on the career. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol. 2.