Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists share insights and techniques that have worked for them in managing the balance between keeping students productive while fostering exam success.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the special problems and opportunities of a small company, specifically, tracking current developments, the role of the actuary, distribution systems and other actuarial problems.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting addresses the changing role of the consulting actuary and the opportunities, problems, and rewards of becoming more heavily involved in the marketing of services and/or the management of a practice area. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists, discussing their own experiences in Canada and the U.S., present their views on why they chose to leave insurance companies for a consulting career. Their individual experiences include joining existing firms, as well as starting a practice as an independent consultant. The panelists discuss the tradeoffs between an insurance company career and consulting, and how to start a consulting practice, including skills needed, marketing, financing, and finding a niche. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.