Description: In this Column, the editor of The Independent Consultant discussed section activities and goals and solicited ideas for how the members' needs could be better met.

Description: 2005 SOA New Orleans Spring Meeting. In this teaching session, panelists discuss the importance, performance, reading and understanding of research that is critical to the future of the health actuarial profession. A case study of a particular research paper is used to facilitate understanding.

Description: Since the world in which actuaries work is both expanding (through 'data science' opportunities) and contracting (since 'data scientists' are doing work formerly done by actuaries), the role of education actuaries is at a tipping point. Members of the Society who are in higher education and representatives from the business community will discuss ways in which the two worlds of business and education have worked together in the past, what can be done by each group to assist the other, and what the future may hold.

Description: Successful actuarial entrepreneurs at this session of the 2004 SOA Annual Meeting present the issues they face and their secrets to success.

Description: A dinner speech at the Actuarial Research Conference at Drake University, Des Moines IA summer 2023. A ramble through 50 years of experience with actuarial research.