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: This article announces the availability of The Valuation Actuary Handbook. The purpose of this handbook is to provide assistance to all actuaries who need to use cash-flow testing to validate the appropriateness of reserves. It is a “how to” manual that contains the most up-to-date considerations and techniques for the valuation process.

Description: An article that reprints R. Stephen Radcliffe's, 1993-94 President, address at SOA Annual Meeting New York City on October 19, 1993. Outlined are the challenges facing the actuarial profession and his personal focus of the enhancement of the research and educational efforts of the SOA.

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 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: A discussion of the changes to the method of grading omitted and erroneous answers on some of the multiple choice Society of Actuaries exams and a discussion as to the equivalence of the methods in determining passing candidates

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: The author discusses the need for actuaries to be prepared to succeed and thrive in a new environment where the competition comes from around the globe and from other professions. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

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: This article announces that the Society Board has reaffirmed its desire to adopt actuarial principles as statements of opinion by forming a new Committee on Actuarial Principles. The types of principles considered are Basic Principles, Methodology Principles = Techniques, and Behavioral Principles = Standards of Practice.