Description: Article presents a potential role for pension actuaries to help assess the effectiveness of defined contribution plans.

Description: A former health actuary, who became a health insurance expert witness, tells about her work, who she deals with, and how she gets business.

Description: Description of the job of a stockbroker in Britain and what an actuary can bring to the trade.

Description: Insurers are becoming increasingly involved in the development and marketing of prepaid health care service plans, or Health Maintenance Organizations HMOs. The article describes four different approaches for establishing capitation rates for HMOs 1. Integrated Budgeting Approach, 2. Inventory Approach, 3. Group Insurance Rating, and 4. Actuarial Approach.

Description: This article covers domestic and international developments in the carbon market, offers some reflections on potential opportunities for actuaries in the carbon markets and provides insights into the skills needed to develop a successful carbon market practice.

Description: The latest installment in a series that applies Buddhist philosophy to the everyday working world of actuaries. This installment chronicles the author's career transition from corporate actuary to academia, relating the challenges faced to those periodically encountered by all actuaries during their career journeys.

Description: Technology In Microinsurance This literature review provides insights on emerging technologies that ... the actuarial profession within the space of microinsurance for the purpose of establishing a frame of ... Description: This literature review provides insights on emerging technologies that interact with the actuarial profession within the space of microinsurance for the purpose of establishing a frame of reference for actuaries to use in their work. Furthermore, it intends to spark readers’ interest in, and create a vision for, how microinsurance and its associated technologies may impact the actuarial industry in the future.

Description: The re-cap of the last year by the chair of the Actuary of the Future section, Andrew Dalton. During the year, the section council has established and tackled some aggressive, forward-looking goals. These goals were shared in our spring newsletter. The rest of the article is an update the progress as a section and as a profession.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial image campaign and the approaches the initiative will be taking will is expected to provide greater opportunities for actuaries.

Description: This is a commentary on strategies for overcoming the fear associated with placing a sales call.