Description: Charitable activities of a retired actuary--planting fruit trees in developing countries to feed people, create jobs and benefit the environment

Description: This article provides concrete advice on addressing the issues that will arise when there is a significant change in your team’s membership, structure or operational functioning so that they have the solid foundation to become a high performing team in the future.

Description: This 1981 session focused on insurance regulation from a federal vs. state perspective. Topics included: 1. Current regulatory environment 2. Anticipated changes in the regulatory environment 3. Ways the future regulatory environment might be impacted.

Description: The embattled life insurance industry in Australia needs to come to terms with a new environment of heightened claims volumes, unprecedented losses, changing distribution models and even reduced benefits. Like the mythological phoenix that spectacularly regenerates from its ashes every century, Australia’s life insurance industry needs something special to rise from its ashes. Claims management innovation promises to give the necessary impetus for a market that is desperate for some good news, whilst laying the foundation for a claims revolution worldwide.

Description: Why have traditional reinsurers not been materially changed or challenged by the new risk transfer techniques that are backed by venture capital or private equity funds? Is there really an impregnable moat that protects our industry from change?

Description: This article explores promising changes to Canada’s retirement system that are necessary to ensure it’s available now and for the next generation.

Description: Article Why He's Who He Is - A Conversation With John O'Connor in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3. As was clear from William W. Truckle's paper reviewed in our April 1982 issue, North American actuaries aren't the only ones puzzling over the curriculum questions aired elsewhere in this issue. We are grateful for Mr. Carroll's permission to print excerpts from his discussion of Mr. Truckle's paper, and parts of his reply to an enquiry that we sent him. In particular, the author is in favor of adding more about advanced statistical methods to the curriculum and explaining how this fits in with the actuarial subjects that have been traditionally taught.

Description: Happiness and success in life require a certain amount of grit - the ability to keep moving forward. We even have the ability to choose to let our trials result in growth - Post Traumatic Growth. What doesn't kill us can make us stronger. Seeing is not believing, but rather believing is seeing!

Description: The article summarizes Executive Orders from early in the Trump Administration that could affect the ability of IRS to publish tax guidance.