Description: Comments on how the profession is changing due to computers and the need for continuing education in order to adapt.

Description: In this article, the Editor previews the contents of this issue.

Description: This article is about management for actuaries.

Description: This is a review of a seminar at the 1987 Colorado Springs meeting of the SOA where the concept of personality types was introduced. The aim of the seminar was to create for each participant an awareness of his or her own type, how to recognize the other types, and then present some tips on how to use that knowledge to get results.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that continuing education can be much more efficiently accomplished if it is planned, the speakers discuss the development of their own continuing education plans, in the broader sense of career and professional development. Another topic of discussion is the Society of Actuaries’ ‘Professional Actuarial Specialty Guides’ and the committee that has done a tremendous amount of work in putting them together. Participants are asked to review their career development plans using a self-scoring test instrument. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This article, by the Editor of 'The Actuary,' is about how the publication staff plans to give readers the information they need to grow with change.

Description: With the backdrop of economic turmoil and much downsizing, the author encourages actuaries to broaden their skills and to be flexible in their careers.

Description: Discusses reader criticism of an article published in a previous newsletter and encourages readers to keep their minds open to new ideas.