Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The author explores the implications of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), both for companies that will need to report under this standard and for companies that will not need to report but will still be affected by its implementation.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The February/March 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The December 2013/January 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: The April/May 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This is the December 2011 cover of The Actuarial magazine displaying the featured articles inside: How to Handle ORSA, The Actuarial Profession in India, and The SOA's Competency Framework

Description: The actuarial profession in India has witnessed a sea change in the decade after insurance liberalization. It has gone from being described as a 'moribund profession' to being a dynamic and lucrative one. This article covers the actuarial professions growth in India along with the Life Insurance market, products and regulatory environment.

Description: Letter from the SOA president addressing the importance of volunteering. Also included are the responses from some volunteers who were asked various questions on the subject of volunteering.

Description: Letter from the president discussing the SOA’s emphasis on communicating with employers.

Description: Feature article announcing the original 13 universities named as centers of actuarial excellence. From the Actuary Magazine, April/May 2010 Vol. 7 Issue 2

Description: This series of articles provides an in-depth look at the activities of the SOA in 2009.

Description: Final installment of a series on the evolution of risk management with a close look at high profile failed corporations.

Description: Feature article discussing the pros and cons of insurance companies in stretch management, using dreams to set business targets with no idea how to get there.

Description: Feature article discussing the new SOA stipend awards and featuring interviews with the first recipients.

Description: Presidential address about changes in the actuarial world.

Description: Feature article discussing the SOA’s competency framework and how it provides direction for professional development.

Description: Article discussing the use of enterprise risk management in the health care industry.

Description: Part 2 of a six-part series on the evolution of risk management continues with this article on dynamic financial analysis.

Description: This article is an interview with ‘pioneer’ Nooruddin [Rudy] S. Karsan, FSA, one of the co–founders of Kenexa® Corp., a leading end–to–end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing, that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees. The company was founded in 1987 and started with two employees. Today Kenexa has 1,600 employees. Karsan discusses his life and entrepreneurial career. He enjoys managing and building businesses, and the challenging opportunities, but that's just one part of his life the other is focusing on serving humanity—the two basic words, he says, that define Kenexa. From ‘The Actuary Magazine’ Volume 5 Issue 4.

Description: This article examines the dynamic environment of the health care system in the United States and the challenges facing the health actuary.

Description: The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the research mission of the SOA, its inner workings, major efforts, funding and its unique qualities.

Description: The article gives background on the Brazilian insurance market and summarizes the newly released regulations which deal with revised reserving guidelines and new capital requirements. Additional capital requirements are promulgated for credit, market, legal, underwriting and operational risks.

Description: This is an interview with Shane Chalke, FSA, MAAA, who has started three businesses since 1983. Chalke, the youngest person ever to be elected to the SOA Board of Governors, has a knack for making the right business decisions. He tells how his actuarial background has played a role in his success, and what makes him a winner.

Description: An interview with Jim Toole, lead researcher for SOA's pandemic research project. The project examines pandemic influenza and its implications to the life and health insurance industry.

Description: This article focuses on marketing opportunities and the impact of new international accounting standards on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. The author presents an update on these subjects from interviews with speakers at a session at the recent annual meeting.

Description: This article discusses health care reform in Kentucky. In 1994, Kentucky implemented health care reform measures inspired by the unsuccessful attempt at national health care reform in the Health Security Act of 1993. The measures adopted in Kentucky are described by the author as 'a textbook case of how not to engage in health care reform.' From: The Actuary, April 2000 – volume 34 - Issue 4.

Description: This article is about our dependence on prescription drugs, their cost and the desire for insurance coverage of drugs.

Description: The author offers advice to an imaginary Fellowship Admission Course about group disability insurance. The speech is based on an article by Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune entitled “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young” that became widely known as the “Sunscreen Speech” because of its central theme.

Description: This article discusses a 1999 white paper, 'A Partnership between the Academic Community and the Actuarial Profession.' The ultimate goal was to create uniformity in education such that qualified actuaries would be recognized regardless of where they qualified. From: The Actuary, October 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 08.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: Independent brokerage agencies have been the alternative distribution system of choice by life insurers using methods other than the career agency system to bring products to market.

Description: In this artice, seven former Society of Actuaries presidents offer their views of the 'Big Tent' approach to growing and strengthening the SOA and the profession. They were asked for their insights by SOA President Howard J. Bolnick, who crafted the Big Tent concept as head of the SOA Committee on Strategic Planning in 1998.

Description: This article presents an overview of the activities, objectives and recommendations of a joint task force representing several North American actuarial organizations to explore a closer partnership between the academic and actuarial communities.

Description: This article explores the trend in mergers and acquisitions among health insurance providers including the rationale for the recent increase in activity.

Description: This article discusses value at risk, VaR, and VaR modeling of the bank's portfolios that would recognize diversity and hedging. This article also covers the differences between classical VaR and the longer horizons required by the insurance industry and the feasibility of extending VaR to the insurance industry.

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: Presidential address at the 1996 annual meeting. The president encourages actuaries to broaden their scope and skills, develop the attributes he discusses and make a plan to redesign yourself.

Description: This article lists the winners of 16 research grants from the SOA, with recipients representing a wide range of expertise and geographic locations.

Description: This article highlights the role of the regulatory actuary and gives advice to company actuaries when making state filings.

Description: This article reports on the activities of an ad-hoc group formed to help generate research on creating models for actuarial purposes.

Description: This article reports on a meeting of the Finance Practice Area and the issues on which they are focusing.

Description: This article offers several broad definitions of an actuary that could apply in both traditional and non-traditional roles.

Description: This article discusses how dynamic financial analysis, also known as dynamic solvency testing, as new field of practice that can use actuarial expertise.

Description: This article highlights a new career for actuaries, actuarial counseling. Actuarial professionals who are trained, skilled, and experienced can act independently to help individuals meet their financial challenges.

Description: This article highlights the topic of ethics and professionalism, the theme adopted by President Bob Berin for the past year. From The Actuary December 1995 Volume 29, No. 10.

Description: This article covers the experiences of the actuaries who participated in the Life Skills Inventory teaching session at the SOA annual meeting. From The Actuary, April 1995, Volume 29, No. 4.

Description: Surveys show that young people do not have confidence that Social Security will exist when they retire - a view that is supported by some official projections. Author points out some ways the funding shortfalls can be corrected to secure Social Security's future.

Description: This article provides a review of the 1993-1994 Year. 'This program year is marked by the profession using the firm foundation of actuarial science and the solid organization of the Society of Actuaries to reach out to new allies and technologies to capture its future. From The Actuary, December 1994 – Volume 28, No. 10.

Description: This article is an update from the E&E committee on the improved E&E Systems. 'The Flexible Education System has given us the freedom to expand the course offerings and to innovate.'

Description: Editorial regarding the diverse forces affecting the life insurance industry.

Description: This article provides an international update on the SOA-Nankai actuarial program.

Description: This article is about the comprehensive health care reform proposal from the Clinton Administration.

Description: The author talks about how his company coped with the great flood of 1993 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Description: An article how the New Actuary of the Future Section Relates to the existing Futurism Section outlines the different functions of each and stresses he importance of both sections.

Description: This article is about non-traditional actuarial opportunities. From The Actuary Vol. 26, No. 9

Description: This article describes some new attempts at comparing the expenses of companies as a whole and offers some preliminary interpretation of results. Volume 24, No. 4

Description: This article describes the actuarial role and opportunity in cleaning up the ...mess left by the excesses of the 1980s. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4

Description: The Consumer Price Index CPU affects almost all Americans in some way. As the most widely used measure of inflation for the U.S. economy, the CPI is a key indicator of the effectiveness of government economic policy.

Description: Overview of the actuarial profession in Europe and includes information on how actuaries are trained and what their roles and responsibilities are in the member countries of the European Economic Community, EEC.

Description: New York’s Regulation 126 effectively requires all companies doing business in New York to file an actuarial opinion and memorandum on their annuity and GIC business. This article attempts to answer 13 of the most commonly asked questions about this regulation.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 that discusses The American Mathematical Society AMS, in conjunction with its 89th summer meeting, presented a one and a half day short course entitled Actuarial Mathematics.

Description: Article highlights various actuarial publications in which actuaries can foster their own professional development through submitting their ideas for publication.

Description: This article is an abstract of notes from a June 1983 meeting of the New York Actuaries Club which discussed the perceived disadvantages suffered by the mutual form of life insurance company organization.

Description: This article asks the question of how to account for the purchase of a life insurance company. It outlines first what the extreme possibilities are, and second, what range of practical approaches might prove acceptable to both the accounting and actuarial profession.

Description: This article provides a summary of Society of Actuaries finances for FY1980, and the prior year, as well as a projected surplus for FY1981 equal to 1980 results.

Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.

Description: A comparison of Social Security benefits, for a hypothetical new entrant to the program, between the 1972 Social Security Act and the 1977 Social Security Act.

Description: This article is a review and discussion of the 1976 “Report of the Consultant Panel on Social Security to the United States Congressional Research Service.” The report contains the results of another government-initiated study of the OASDI system which puts forth a second solution to a problem first publicly identified by the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, a problem which has come to be known as the “decoupling issue.” Because the solution proposed by the actuaries and economists making up this consultant panel is significantly different from that of the Advisory Council, this report has inspired some degree of friendly debate among actuaries and others interested in the technicalities of the OASDI benefit formula. Panel members are Peter A. Diamond, James C. Hickman, Ernest J. Moorhead, and William C. Hsiao, Chairman.

Description: This article is a review of “1972 Lifetime Earnings by Age, Sex, Race, and Education Level, Research and Statistics Note No. 14-1975,” published by the Social Security Administration, which presents detailed data by quinquennial age groups, sex, race, and years of school completed as to the present value of future earnings based on static earnings levels 1972. It is stated that such data can be used for general analytical purposes to form policy, for court determinations of awards in damage suits, and for cost-benefit analysts in such areas as disease prevention and education programs. The author of this article notes in his analysis the inconsistency of the static salary assumptions with a range of interest rates from 2% to 8%.

Description: Response to Robert Myers review of an actuarialaudit of the Social Security system performed by Professors Kaplan and Weil.

Description: This article contains a listing of the publications of the National Center for Health Statistics. Copies of any of the listed publications can be obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, Rockville, Maryland. In ordering, the series number and the number within the series should be given.

Description: This article discusses the changes to the Social Security System that were enacted at mid-year 1972 in Public Law 92-336. Among the changes are the so-called 'automatic' provisions,' under which Social Security benefits are periodically increased in step with the Consumer Price Index, and the earnings base is concurrently increased in step with average earnings levels.

Description: This note compares hospital utilization and average daily hospital costs for persons aged 65 and over as indicated by 1968 data under Medicare's Hospital Insurance Program and from the American Hospital Association.

Description: This article promotes the concept of long range planning for life insurance companies and notes that actuaries are well equiped for this activity.