Description: This article is about actuaries succeeding in non-insurance environments. These pioneers of the profession are creating a new paradigm for the future. Most of those actuaries have similar traits: vision, ability to 'think out of the box,' initiative, desire, ability to take risk, a high level of intelligence, creativity, leadership, and industry standing. All of those traits plus actuarial skills and training equal a powerful combination.

Description: This article is about how innovative use of technology will be a key differentiator for future success and maybe even survival, and how technology will switch from a defensive to an offensive tool, aimed principally at driving revenues. The article addresses the question: How will successful leaders in the insurance industry use technology in the future?

Description: The author details his indirect path to becoming an actuary.

Description: This article is about how entrepreneur independent business owners can solve their day-to-day frustrations and problems with a simple and useful process for setting goals and building a plan to meet those goals.

Description: The author offers advice on maintaining your value and effectiveness which could be negatively impacted by an environmental change and presents a change management model that can be used for self evaluation in handling change and for development of the skill in helping others deal with change.

Description: This article describes the author's experiences in implementing best practices in insurance regulation in Tanzania, outlining the challenges of the project.

Description: The approach of the year 2000 creates a millennial fascination which causes man to ponder his past, to assess his present, and to peer into his future. This study of the actuarial profession looks upon those design-steering aspects which can lead to a greater future. Although this work adopts the standpoint of a life company actuary, it views the entirety of the profession. All actuaries are bound up in essentially the same future. This study may have special interest to a young person contemplating the actuarial profession as a career. Consequently, an effort is made to consider the subject over the projected career of such a person- roughly to the year 2020. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt.1, No. 76.

Description: Part I of a four-part series on insurance product regulations around the world. Provides a good high-level summary of the regulations as of 2002.

Description: The Complete Actuary Managing Change by Claire Marie Burchill from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, January 2004, Issue No. 13.

Description: What to do when you are faced with two or more unattractive career options.