Description: The Chairperson reviews the section council's focus on initiatives in two strategic areas—the career pioneer program and better meeting the needs of our section members.

Description: The chairperson provides an update of the Future Section's areas of focus: Career Pioneer Program, Critical Skills Education and Risk Management Opportunities.

Description: The author presents the key issues and objectives for 2005 for the Actuary of the Future Section Council.

Description: The re-cap of the last year by the chair of the Actuary of the Future section, Andrew Dalton. During the year, the section council has established and tackled some aggressive, forward-looking goals. These goals were shared in our spring newsletter. The rest of the article is an update the progress as a section and as a profession.

Description: This article covers focus of the section council, progress on ongoing initiatives such as the Career Pioneer Program, and new initiatives including image building of the profession as well as support for actuaries in individual practice and/or small businesses.

Description: An examination of the underlying reasons for the concept of health expectancy, some alternative approaches to developing the measurement and some of the powerful uses of this new tool.

Description: Much of enterprise risk management has its roots in portfolio management and corporate finance. The concepts of trading off risk and return and benefits of diversification are well understood and articulated in both the actuarial and economics fields, so I don’t believe there are significant knowledge gaps preventing actuaries from contributing to the field. In fact, actuaries may have an advantage in many situations where a large part of a firm’s overall risk arises from pension activities or other more typical actuarial risks.

Description: Undoubtedly you have heard and read a lot about the Society’s Image Campaign, which launched into full gear this year. As a member of the Actuary of the Future AOF Section you have heard and read about the Actuarial Pioneer or Career Pioneer program and its continuing evolution. These two initiatives fit together very well, and our section council has established them as two of our top priorities for the next year as we continue to lend support and leadership to developing these efforts.

Description: The author details his indirect path to becoming an actuary.

Description: Discussion with Suzanna-Grace Sayre on her career path, as well as any valuable insights she has to offer.