Description: The success of SOA events hinges on the contributions of its volunteers. This article outlines a few of the significant contributions of those donating of their time and expertise.

Description: Summary of recent activity in the social insurance and public finance section and invitation to volunteers.

Description: An overview of Olga Jacobs' professional development journey and how it helped her on her path to leadership.

Description: An essay on how the lyrics of the Simon and Garfunkel hit song helps the author keep perspective and be a better leader by slowing down and taking the time to listen and lead.

Description: The article describes my career in Diversity, starting at the workplace, and continuing during my current service on the Board. Readers should get ideas as to how they too can work towards improving Diversity and Inclusion in our workplaces and our profession.

Description: This paper is based on work the authors did for the Committee on Retirement Systems Research of the Society of Actuaries. The authors' task was to perform data analysis for that Committee in support of a study of the effects of the Safest Annuity Rule. The Committee's conclusions will be released in a separate report. This paper describes their overall study only to put the authors' own work in context. The real purpose of this paper is to discuss the data analysis skills and principles which were applied in this project, and to argue that these same skills and principles should be part of an actuarial student's education. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1998 Vol. 1.

Description: Profile of the Smaller Insurance Company Section, focusing on webinars.

Description: Profile of the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: Humor in the workplace can improve productivity. This article describes a typical office relationship problem and how humor helped disparate teams work together.