Description: The article describes Carol Proffer's career as an actuary beginning in an insurance company to her role in investment consulting where she helps general partners raise private equity, venture capital and real estate funds.

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 is an interview with Thomas P. Bowles regarding his 1978 run for Congress.

Description: This article highlights a new career for actuaries, actuarial counseling. Actuarial professionals who are trained, skilled, and experienced can act independently to help individuals meet their financial challenges.

Description: This article discusses how dynamic financial analysis, also known as dynamic solvency testing, as new field of practice that can use actuarial expertise.

Description: This article profiles Susan Pantely, an associate actuary for Milliman & Robertson in New York, who also dabbles in acting.

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: This article focuses on Jeffrey J. Nohl, who started his career as a credit insurance actuary. Nohl moved from the familiar insurer side of health care to the provider side. He is now the president of Aurora Health Network.

Description: Is there life for actuaries other than in insurance companies or with employee benefits? For years the French have thought so, and this summer at the International Congress of Actuaries, the rest of the world agreed. The International Actuarial Association IAA established AFIR Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks.

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