Description: Editorial discussing competencies actuaries need to have in order for the profession to be recognized as the leading professionals in the modeling and management of financial risk.

Description: 1996-97 SOA President, David M. Holland writes an article soliciting clear concise definitions of what an actuary is.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Board of Governors decided in June 1996 to discontinue the printed version of the Record in favor of electronic distribution, with the objectives of 1.hastening the availability of session transcripts to the members, 2. reducing publication costs, and 3. taking advantage of technological advances. This article introduces the availability of sessions for the 1996 Society of Actuaries meetings.

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

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: Article Actuaries And Communication by Delgadillo in The Actuary, April 1979, Volume 13, Number 4.

Description: This article is an interview of the 1,000th person to join the Actuaries Online system, Frank Stone. He is asked questions regarding his use of the service.

Description: Chronicles the genesis of The Actuary, and pays homage to its first editor, Andrew C. Webster.

Description: Discussion of the skills actuaries need going forward to be successful, and hence, incorporated into the new actuarial exam syllabus.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.