Description: Interview with John Robinson, SOA President-Elect and Vice Chair, on several topics of importance to the SOA.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved a very new actuarial manager trying to deal with a disruptive employee.

Description: A reader asks why, of 29 selected essays on Visions for the Future of the U.S. Health Care System, only one was authored by a woman.

Description: This presentation at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about the importance of good customer service and how taking care of the customer leads to a good bottom line.

Description: Increasingly, actuaries need to collaborate and partner with clinicians in order to be successful in value-based care and population health initiatives. Gaining credibility with professionals from different backgrounds, training and sometimes different objectives can be a challenge. Gain perspectives from actuaries and clinicians to discuss how to collaborate and achieve stronger results and outcomes. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Identify common scenarios where actuaries and clinicians need to collaborate. • Understand perspectives on how to partner and communicate with clinicians. • Describe successful strategies that take into account improvement of financial and clinical outcomes. • Understand how actuaries can provide valuable data to drive results and demonstrate outcomes.

Description: This article summarizes the results of a Delphi study amoung SOA Futurism Section members about the actuarial profession and the U.S. economy and other matters in the years 2010 and 2050.

Description: A Mexican actuary discusses his career, the challenges of different insurance markets in different cultures, the value of sharing knowledge across countries and across professions, and the latest public policy regarding solvency models.

Description: This interactive session provides an introduction to behavioral economics, including groups identifying areas where behavioral economics could be applied in actuarial practice. Experience a practical application workshop using behavioral economics for direct sale products. Break out into small groups and develop an outline of a BE based sales program for a product of your choosing to be sold over the internet. Gain feedback and take part in a discussion. By attending the session, you will: - Understand the basic concepts of behavioral economics. - Have some ideas of how it can be applied to actuarial practice. - Learn how to design a product using BE and how to design an experiment to test the effectiveness of an application of BE.

Description: Limitations in actual practice as a health care actuary due to lack of standards, lack of internal data, too much external data, lack of control. Issue No. 38.

Description: Discussion of inflation: Causes and impacts and what the roles of actuaries might be to manage it.