Description: This article presents the results of Competition No. 1 which confirmed that actuaries are a deucedly clever and witty lot and solicits entries for Competition No. 2.

Description: This is a book review of Charles L. Trowbridge's new monograph on the Fundamental Concepts of Actuarial Science. This monograph may help shape actuarial standards and principles for the next 100 years.

Description: Expanding the demand for actuaries in markets that do not typically employ actuaries.

Description: Phil Bieluch's probing editorial in The Actuary's Dec. 2004 issue asked, Are we comfortable with the assumptions underlying our calculation of pension liabilities on employer's balance sheets? Even if this isn't our responsibility? From The Actuary, April/May 2005

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss how case studies are being used in actuarial education. A case study is presented and explored as an example.

Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.

Description: View a list of SOA members who accepted leadership roles as members of the 1989-90 Board of Governors. FromThe Actuary Vol. 24, No. 11

Description: The technological, globalized world we live in was barely imaginable when the organization now called the International Association of Actuaries [IAA] was launched 103 years ago. However, that world was a reality when the International Forum of Actuarial Associations [IFAA] was formed as a section of the IAA in 1995. As the quadrennial IAA congress convenes in June 1998 in Birmingham, England, IAA members will vote on a historic measure. They will consider transforming the IAA, now an association of individual actuaries, into the structure of the IFAA, an association of actuarial organizations, to maintain and work to increase the profession’s influence in an increasingly globalized world. This article describes the details of the proposed changes.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1976 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 2, No. 1, detailing session presentations at the April 1976 SOA Meeting in Washington D.C.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Independence of the actuary, 2. Problems posed by United States pension legislation, 3. Registered equity products, including variable life insurance, variable annuities, and mutual funds, 4. Limits to growth, and 5. Maintenance of high standards in a profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 76.