Description: This article is part of a series that periodically highlights personal careers and offers new perspectives on actuarial job paths. It features John R. Thompson, one of two deputy superintendents in Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. In addition, he chairs the executive committee of an international organization that sets standards for insurance supervisors worldwide.

Description: This article is about a session held at the October 1996 annual meeting, which focused on how actuaries can move beyond traditional employers.

Description: Discussion of the career of a health insurance actuary who worked in an insurance company, consulting firm and government

Description: This article discusses the actuarial profession and its role and needed skill set development going forward in meeting the needs of businesses for risk management and capital management

Description: Insurance professionals are seeing the industry change before their very eyes, and many are being forced to change with it. But it seems those pushed and pushing the most are those touched directly by the Internet’s World Wide Web. In this article, seven executives and professionals are interviewed about their work on this new fast track. They sometimes had widely varying opinions, but they agreed on two points: the Web is rapidly forcing a restructuring of the way insurance business is done, and this will create new and perhaps more opportunities for actuaries.

Description: This article highlights how an actuary, progressed into the executive management role of CIO, and how she utilizes her actuarial skill set in her new position.

Description: This article is part of a series that periodically highlights personal careers and offers new perspectives on actuarial job paths. It features John M. Boermeester, who retired in 1975 after 44 years with John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance. Boermeester was one of an elite group of actuaries who were asked to step out of their daily roles and into a special research assignment in World War II. They were members of the U.S. Navy’s Operations Research Group [ORG], a civilian unit formed to analyze military operations to determine what methods and procedures would have the maximum impact with minimum loss.