Description: This article from SOA president David Holland, speaks to the need of the actuarial profession to consistently evolve with the needs of the 21st century.

Description: background history of the insurance industry and the role of actuaries within it, followed by the current environment and anticipated future environment.

Description: This article highlights the benefits of the globalization of the actuarial profession and discusses why actuaries should be interested in international topics.

Description: James Toole reviews Mike Cowell's book, Cyberbug. The story follows an imaginary actuary and his family into the 21st century and tells how the dramatic changes around them alter their lives.

Description: An article provides the Presidential Address given by R. Stephen Radcliffe, President, Society of Actuaries Address at Annual Meeting. The Society of Actuaries is emerging as a global player, a significant and challenging role.

Description: This article is about the Society is becoming significantly more active on the international scene. Specifically, the activities of ambassadorial visits to Asia and Australia were described.

Description: In an article on the same subject, in the March 1976 issue of The Actuary, it was reported that the Sub-Committee on Notation of the International Actuarial Association had circulated a questionnaire among the various national organizations to sound out public opinion on the issue of linearization and expansion of the International Actuarial Notation. This article is an update on recent developments reflecting the Special Meeting on the International Actuarial Notation, held October 30, 1976 at the XX International Congress of Actuaries.

Description: This article describes the membership of the SOA outside of the United Sates. An informal count places the number of such members in active practice at 406.

Description: This 1976 article discusses the history and current developments with respect to the International Actuarial Notation, including reference to a paper on this topic in the December 1972 issue of The Actuary by John Boermeester.

Description: A Canadian actuary discusses the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA, a section of the IAA, and highlights its support of professionalism, actuarial practice and actuarial education.