Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: This is a panel discussion about the future of the actuarial profession as it appears to the younger actuaries. Also discussed is the changing nature of the insurance and pension industry and what the Society of Actuaries is doing to adapt, From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 52.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 The American Academy of Actuaries had put together an ad hoc task force charged with developing a long-term strategic approach for marketing the profession to future users of actuarial services and to strategically position and strengthen the profession. This session provided an update on the progress of the task force.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provided an update on the progress of the American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a long-term strategic approach for marketing the profession to future users of actuarial services and to strategically position and strengthen the profession.

Description: Discusses the initial accomplishments and upcoming challenges of the newly formed IFAA. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Benefits of belonging to SOA special interest sections.

Description: Since 1966, the Society of Actuaries has been an affiliate of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. This article gives an overview of what the Conference Board is, what it does.

Description: This article covers the results of the elections for the 2013 product development section council. In particular, it gives the background on the following individuals who were newly elected to a 3-year term on the council: Vera Ljucovic, Jim Filmore, and Joe Kordovi. It also gives the background on Dave Moran who was chosen by the council for a 1-year term to replace a council member that had to step down prior to completing their 3-year term.

Description: A summary of the activities during the Caribbean Actuarial Association 2012 Annual Conference.

Description: A critique of the SOA's co-sponsoring of the Manhart Brief which addressed sex discrimination in pension rates. This critique argues that the brief violates the SOA constitution by expressing not just facts, but opinions, without following specified procedures for doing so.