Description: Status of the actuarial profession in Sri Lanka, challenges and initiatives developed by the Actuarial Association of Sri Lanka advance the profession.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved whether or not to extend an offer to a strong candidate, after a comment from the CEO.

Description: Twelfth installment of a series that applies Buddhist philosophy to actuarial practice. This edition wraps up the author's experience in yoga teacher training.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management challenge between 3 actuaries. Readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?"

Description: The Society’s Career Encouragement Committee is continuing its program of recruiting minority and women students for the actuarial profession through the subcommittee on Minority Recruitment. This is a brief report on the program’s recent progress.

Description: This article is a letter to the SOA’s Director of Education, recounts the writer’s recent experience with the Society’s Speaker Kit, and her address to a school class at a junior high Career Day, noting the youthful audience's attention seemed to fade when talking about ‘insurance in general, the work and the exams,’ but when the talk turned to numbers, the audience became interested and assisted in calculating insurance premiums.

Description: This article is an interview with an actuarial leader.

Description: It is a description of the 13 subgroups which currently exist, gives a brief description of the expectations of a subgroup leader, and a request for volunteers.

Description: Chairperson's note to readers.

Description: Discussion of the Clearinghouse Scholarship Program, which matches low income candidates in developing countries where SOA exams are administered with potential corporate or individual sponsors.