Description: The SOA's mission is to advance actuarial knowledge and to enhance the ability of actuaries to provide expect advice and relevant solutions for financial, business and societal problems involving uncertain future events. In session 110IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the work and findings of the Task Force on SOA Research Project Activity Effectiveness to meet that mission. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 2001, Issue No. 25.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 38, Number 1 - January 2004

Description: Full version of International Section News, May 2000, Issue No. 22.

Description: The Journey to Asia by Norm Crowder from International Section News, February 2001, Issue No. 24.

Description: The SOA President Visits Georgia by A. Norman Crowder, III from International Section News, May 2000, Issue No. 22.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents a discussion of actuarial qualification standards, standards of practice SOP, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline - ABCD. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21. No. 4b.

Description: This is a brief report on the trip that the author made with two other SOA members, Bruce Schobel and Jim Wiseman, to Almaty, Kazakhstan during the week of September 1, 2003. They were invited by the Actuarial Society of Kazakhstan [ASK] to conduct several seminars for their members and various government officials. The trip was financed by USAID through a grant to the Arizona-Kazakhstan Foundation. The topics of the seminars were pension/social security reform, role of the actuary in an economy, annuity pricing/ reserving and professionalism.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session describes the big tent vs. little tent approach to the actuarial profession's future and relates these to the Quantum vs. Newtonian ways of thinking.

Description: This article is the presidential address at the 2000 annual meeting of the SOA. As he was leaving office, Norm Crowder told the attendees about his year as SOA president and his vision for the Society's future. From: The Actuary, December 2000, volume 34, issue 10.