Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: This article summarizes a presentation at an SOA annual meeting session, “Opening Up Your Company to the Use of Actuaries in Nontraditional Roles.”

Description: Article Retirement To Chaos by Smith in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: This article describes the results of a survey of 27 members of the Society holding nontraditional jobs. These actuaries were contacted by the Society’s Career Encouragement Committee’s Subcommittee on Actuarial Opportunities, and the results are interesting. All of the individuals have maintained their membership, yet some of them are in fields which are not very actuarial, such as physician and one who builds restaurants for a fast food chain.

Description: Interview with Ian Duncan about his actuarial background and role in predictive analytics.

Description: One person's tips on how actuaries can be successful at selling their actuarial services.

Description: Discusses the role of the Board of Governors of a typical corporation, and how an actuary can be well suited to contribute as a Board member.

Description: One of two articles in this issue about actuaries serving as expert witnesses.

Description: Article from The Actuary, February 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 2 provides a review of an article in the September, 1971 issue of Operations Research, the scientific journal of the Operations Research Society of America ORSA. The reviewer points out the similarities between the actuarial profession and Operations Research as both professions are involved with analytic methods in planning, managing, and evaluating complex systems.

Description: With the convergence and consolidation of the financial services industry, the advent of new technologies and the Internet, and increased focus on the customer, actuaries are facing a brand new set of challenges. This editorial prefaces the articles in this issue that point out some key challenges and opportunities facing today’s actuaries.