Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 7PD, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss how in practice there is considerable variation from company to company in the functions that fall within the corporate actuary’s role. They discuss variations in corporate actuarial functions, and corporate actuaries’ role in their company’s management structure. The panelists explore trends in the role of the corporate actuary, and what makes for an effective corporate actuarial function. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting addresses the changing role of the consulting actuary and the opportunities, problems, and rewards of becoming more heavily involved in the marketing of services and/or the management of a practice area. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: In this presentation made at the 1975 Society of Actuaries annual meeting, the speaker addresses the concept of actuaries as futurists, simply by being actuaries. The speaker then defines a futurist as “very simply, the executive who takes the future environment seriously. Most of us let the urgent affairs of today drive out the important affairs of tomorrow. By ‘environment’ I mean the social, technological, economic, and political environment.” The presentation goes on emphasize that the futurist must overcome shortsightedness and tunnel vision.

Description: This is a discussion about recruiting professional people, and what can be done to reduce the high rate of turnover among professionals, especially during the first few years of employment. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No 59.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the challenges faced by senior executives in managing all of the various groups including policyholders, shareholders, rating agencies, regulators, agents and employees of an insurance organization. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: IFRS 17 is a significant change that requires insurers to invest time and resources. The presenters will address wider implications of the new standard, and a senior leaders' panel will cover a number of perspectives. They will address the latest developments of the standard and interpretations, emerging technology that is accelerating implementation, insights from implementing IFRS 17 in Canada and globally, reinsurance considerations and opportunities for the actuarial profession.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting presents the conclusions from case study workshops on strategic planning. Two studies included are the Progressive Insurance and Guardian Life Insurance Company case studies.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The speaker comments that actuaries are well suited for strategic thinking by what they do, noting that “clearly strategy is very heavily involved in trying to understand the external environment and trying to forecast the future in some fashion.” The speaker also sees that “three fundamental factors that will have to be built into everything that we do. These three factors are internationalization or globalization, an understanding of quality, and an understanding of human resource management.” From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a teaching session from the 1975 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-22, in Bal Harbor, FL. The instructor discusses problems in management, including topics such as the characteristics of change, the ingredients of decisions, communications, delegation, motivation, and the components of satisfaction in business. Presentation not included but contact information provided. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 1, No. 4.

Description: Andy Rallis delivers his speech at the presidential luncheon of the SOA 2019 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit in Toronto.