Description: During 2005 the Actuary of the Future Section Council reviewed its plans and strategies for 2006. During its discussions, the council reaffirmed the section’s mission “to identify and promote new opportunities, skills and new ways of thinking to help actuaries excel on their career journeys” and established this as the primary section goal for 2006 to increase membership value.

Description: Actuary of the Future Chairman reviews the initiatives for the coming year including monitoring the continuing progress of the Personal Actuary Task Force, the establishment of the Younger Actuaries Network, and the identification and communication of emerging issues and trends.

Description: This session at the 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses questions about continuing education requirements including current requriements and new ideas, NAIC requirements and monitoring practices.

Description: Article discussing the best ways to attest continuing professional development.

Description: Writing articles is not as hard as most people think, but it does take some thought and planning. This article gives practical tips about how to put "pen to paper" and write an effective article.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on the professional issues facing the actuary working in the international environment. Topics to be discussed include licensing, education, code of conduct, and cultural differences. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This article introduces a new CD-ROM tool for continuing education, the first of which is about the recent Actuarial Research Conference.

Description: This article is about the Society of Actuaries' Education and Examination Research Paper Committee awarding 30 Fellowship credits to Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Ph.D., ASA, for his paper, 'Macroeconomic Aspects of Private Retirement Programs.' This is the twelfth such paper approved for Fellowship credit under the SOA’s Future Education Methods program. The paper analyzes possible macroeconomic factors contributing to the decline in the use of defined benefit plans and proposes an alternative hypothesis for the cause of the decline.

Description: This is a general session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting that includes panelists debating the topic of whether the SOA is failing to equip its members for the role their employees and clients should expect of them.