Description: Discusses how actuaries can contribute to society through public service, and relates that to the articles in this newsletter.

Description: This article is part of a series that periodically highlights personal careers and offers new perspectives on actuarial job paths. It features John M. Boermeester, who retired in 1975 after 44 years with John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance. Boermeester was one of an elite group of actuaries who were asked to step out of their daily roles and into a special research assignment in World War II. They were members of the U.S. Navy’s Operations Research Group [ORG], a civilian unit formed to analyze military operations to determine what methods and procedures would have the maximum impact with minimum loss.

Description: Expanding the demand for actuaries in markets that do not typically employ actuaries.

Description: A description of actuaries who also make art.

Description: Article Socrates Introduces Plato To Nether World Of Editing by Tomlinson in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Accomplishments of the past year and a look at initiatives for the year ahead.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1986, Volume 20, No. 4, that highlights non-traditional perspectives. It is fashionable these days to characterize actuarial jobs as either traditional or non-traditional. My experience, however, as an actuary working for a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, leads me to conclude that the traditional skills associated with actuarial training are quite appropriate for the activities of a stock brokerage.

Description: This paper reviews state and federal regulation of investment advisers as it applies to personal actuaries and advocates action steps.