Description: The recent Forecast 2000 forum on the environment held in Toronto dealt with such issues as increased taxes and higher insurance premiums to cover costs of natural disasters.

Description: Who are the members of the Society of Actuaries? What sections do they belong to? Do most reside within the United States? Just what are some of the population characteristics of the more than 18,000 actuaries who belong to our organization? The areas covered here include section affiliation, countries represented, ages of FSA's and more.

Description: How to design a meeting's environment to maximize participants’ positive mood, energy, and opinion of your meeting.

Description: Table 2 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing the Pension Section's plans for continuing education and the expected timeframe

Description: Discusses the purpose, goals, makeup, and initial accomplishments of the Emerging Issues Advisory Group, EIAG.

Description: Table 3 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing Pension Section's plans for Communications and their timeframe

Description: It is the author's opinion that the SOA needs to provide a broad-based education for those who want to be trained as a corporate/chief actuary, and that each actuary needs to determine whether he/she wants to be a 'big fish in a small pond or a little fish in a big lake.' From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article discusses the activities and goals of the Product Development Section of the SOA. Future activities will include joint sessions with other sections since product development issues sometimes relate to financial reporting. reinsurance, investments and nontraditional marketing.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This document provides a list of topics and speakers for the 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings table of contents