Description: Actuaries are lauded for their technical and analytical skills, but aren't so well known for their communication and general business skills. Is this the case worldwide? The Actuary magazine spoke to actuaries from Australia to the United Kingdom and a sampling of regions in between to get their take on the topic.

Description: Reminiscences of the original production staff about the first twenty years of producing and publishing The Actuary, and best wishes to the actuarial profession.

Description: Chronicles the genesis of The Actuary, and pays homage to its first editor, Andrew C. Webster.

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: The author encourages actuaries to provide more disclosure and better communication about their work to eliminate the perception of the black box.

Description: Editor’s column discussing the need for communication amongst actuaries.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Board of Governors decided in June 1996 to discontinue the printed version of the Record in favor of electronic distribution, with the objectives of 1.hastening the availability of session transcripts to the members, 2. reducing publication costs, and 3. taking advantage of technological advances. This article introduces the availability of sessions for the 1996 Society of Actuaries meetings.

Description: This is an article about actuaries competing to complete the ACTUCROSSWORD. From The Actuary VOL. 16, No.3

Description: This article is about how an office can become more efficient using 10 collective time management ideas instituted in the actuarial division of Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1994 – Volume 28, No. 3 that the authors compares the Society to a university and is seeking out members of the 1969 class for a reunion.