Description: The Centennial Celebration meeting in Washington, D.C., was a fantastic success. It was a clever combination of a happy celebration of our many past accomplishments and a serious consideration of the challenges that face our profession.

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: 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 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: 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.