Description: This article is about why actuaries should have integral roles within nearly every IT and business intelligence company serving the insurance industry.

Description: This article is about how to start a career in the technology field.

Description: The guest editorial details some valuable lessons during the author’s career as an employee benefits (mostly retirement) consultant, turned P&C predictive modeling, reporting and data warehousing lead, turned an analytic strategist and independent consultant.

Description: In session 104IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss actuarial careers in software development. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: The panelists of this session 142PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discuss how they got into computer science and explain the various types of activities involved in their jobs as actuaries in computer science. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 142PD.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to bring you information about the actuarial career path in life insurance and predictive analytics. We’ll continue to share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and top employers in life insurance.

Description: Meet Christine Hofbeck. Christine is pushing the boundaries of traditional life and general insurance by finding problems and fixing them with new technology, modeling methods and sources of data. Most recently, she built a predictive analytics team at one of the world's largest financial services institutions to support the pricing team for a $5 billion portfolio covering life, disability, critical illness and more.

Description: Interview with Ian Duncan about his actuarial background and role in predictive analytics.

Description: With the convergence and consolidation of the financial services industry, the advent of new technologies and the Internet, and increased focus on the customer, actuaries are facing a brand new set of challenges. This editorial prefaces the articles in this issue that point out some key challenges and opportunities facing today’s actuaries.