Description: Readers’ responses to the mortality study conundrum from the previous issue.

Description: Third installment in a series of articles applying Buddhist principles to the challenges that actuaries face in applying their craft. The themes are adapted from the book "Awake at Work", by Michael Carroll. This particular installment covers the concept of "li" to the compliance aspects of an actuary's work, moving beyond minimum or literal compliance to a work product that provides multiple uses and meets a much higher standard

Description: Continuation of a series of articles adapted from the book "Awake at Work" by Michael Carroll, covering the application of Buddhist teachings to situations encountered in a modern corporate workplace setting. This series addresses challenges frequently encountered by practicing actuaries.

Description: Remarks on the pricing of joint LTC policies illustrate the need for an actuary's responsibility to the law, and to best practices, to take precendence over serving sales, marketing and underwriting objectives.

Description: Describes why actuarial standards of practice (ASOPs) are so important, and encourages practitioners to read them and comment on them.

Description: This article is about the opportunity for plagiarism in e-learning courses and what the Society of Actuaries is doing to detect and discipline such conduct.

Description: This is a presidential address to the Society of Actuaries by Dwight K. Bartlett III. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984, Vol. 36.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting examines ethics from the standpoint of the actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This 1977 session presented dramatic scenarios of situations related to professional conduct. The audience was asked to react to the situations and provide their thoughts on the appropriateness of the situations. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 4.

Description: Conflict of Interest Notifications Aid Client’s Fiduciary Obligations by Theodore Konshak from Pension Section News, January 1998, Issue No. 35.