Description: The author asserts that your brand, or reputation, cannot be manufactured. A successful brand is built on what is real and authentic about you. She provided some tips to help you fast-track your brand building.

Description: Stand Out From The Crowd Through Articles In Magazines by Carl Friesen from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.

Description: Malpractice Claims: What You Can Do To Protect Yourself by David R. Godofsky from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.

Description: Article discusses how to effectively network and use referrals to grow your client base as discussed by business coach and actuary, Dave Miller.

Description: In this paper, Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, the author examines the rapidly increasing costs of maintaining the U.S. prison system and the fiscal pressures the federal and state governments are faced with, and proposes a plan for an early prisoner release program “with a rigorous, merit-based approach that can be expected to demonstrate favorable outcomes for the general public and the released prisoner.” This plan involves “an optimized process for evaluating the perils associated with freeing candidates eligible for early release - an individualized assessment and quantification of those risks…” The article goes on to describe the costs, benefits, risks, and critical success factors. The report includes two appendices.

Description: This column highlights the articles contained in the December 2009 issue of The Independent Consultant.

Description: This is an article about J. Bradley Murray, of Smart Tech Actuarial Consultants STAC, who provides actuarial and technology services to both the insurance companies who are actuaries' traditional marketplace, and to other kinds of businesses with non-traditional needs.