Description: The Professional Development Committee is an SOA board of directors appointed committee that has overall responsibility for managing the development of the professional development (PD) curriculum.

Description: Outgoing editor, Gail Lawrence looks back at her editorship and remarks on the future of the health actuarial field.

Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to educate health care policymakers on issues including principles for reform, Medicare, the individual insurance market, and risk factors.

Description: Discussion of the activities of the Social Insurance and Public Finance Section during its first year and its plans for 2010

Description: A description of the election process within the SOA, the role of the Board of Governors, and how the process has evolved from an on-the-spot balloting process to a mail-in process.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: A review of 'Life Contingencies' by Alistair Neill, to be used as a textbook for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries examinations.

Description: How does the founding in 1889 of North America's first actuarial organization fit into world actuarial history? This article gives a partial listing of non-North American actuarial organizations and their founding dates.

Description: Highlights the current activities and future challenges of the International Actuarial Association.

Description: Announcements of upcoming events.