Description: Department column featuring an interview with Sim Segal.

Description: This article spotlights four groups that are all working to move the SOA’s strategic agenda forward.

Description: An interview with Jim Glickman, past SOA president 2018 to 2019, and president and CEO of LifeCare Assurance Company, about his life as an actuary.

Description: This article is an interview with Laura Bennett, FSA, CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance. Her company provides one–of–a–kind pet insurance. The Actuary recently asked Bennett some questions about her unusual use of actuarial training.

Description: Who are the members of the Society of Actuaries? What sections do they belong to? Do most reside within the United States? Just what are some of the population characteristics of the more than 18,000 actuaries who belong to our organization? The areas covered here include section affiliation, countries represented, ages of FSA's and more.

Description: This is an interview with Steve Vernon, FSA, MAAA, who runs his own business for helping people live long and prosper–financially, emotionally and with respect to their health. His contribution to society is to use his actuarial expertise and communication skills to help the baby boom generation face these challenges.

Description: The second part of a panel discussion on the changes ERM is creating in the actuarial and business worlds. This first part of this discussion appeared in the December/January issue of The Actuary. Topics covered included: the difference between ERM now and risk management of the past, the transformation of the CRO role due to ERM and more. You can find the first part of this series on the SOA Web site at: www. soa.org, Research & Publications, The Actuary Magazine, December 2005, ERM's Wave of Change: Part I.

Description: This article contains interviews with the directors of three Society of Actuaries departments. Margaret Ann Jordan is the managing director of Information Technology and Services, Tiffany Berger is the director of Finance and Facilities, and Toni Murril is the director of Human Resources.

Description: John Dewan, FSA, and his non-traditional career into baseball and STATS

Description: Todd Bault, senior research analyst, Institutional Research, Sanford C. Bernstein & Company and a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, was recently named the top equities analyst in the non-life insurance sector by Institutional Investor as part of the magazine's 2004 All-America Research Team, according to a press release from Casualty Actuarial Society. As part of its ongoing quest to highlight the careers of actuaries who have moved into non-traditional roles, thereby opening new employment avenues for the actuary profession, The Actuary asked Bault to answer a few questions about his career. From The Actuary Magazine February 2005