Description: Discussion with Suzanna-Grace Sayre on her career path, as well as any valuable insights she has to offer.

Description: This article covers focus of the section council, progress on ongoing initiatives such as the Career Pioneer Program, and new initiatives including image building of the profession as well as support for actuaries in individual practice and/or small businesses.

Description: Much of enterprise risk management has its roots in portfolio management and corporate finance. The concepts of trading off risk and return and benefits of diversification are well understood and articulated in both the actuarial and economics fields, so I don’t believe there are significant knowledge gaps preventing actuaries from contributing to the field. In fact, actuaries may have an advantage in many situations where a large part of a firm’s overall risk arises from pension activities or other more typical actuarial risks.

Description: Brief article focusing on the future of the actuarial profession.

Description: An examination of the underlying reasons for the concept of health expectancy, some alternative approaches to developing the measurement and some of the powerful uses of this new tool.

Description: Expanding the demand for actuaries in markets that do not typically employ actuaries.

Description: The re-cap of the last year by the chair of the Actuary of the Future section, Andrew Dalton. During the year, the section council has established and tackled some aggressive, forward-looking goals. These goals were shared in our spring newsletter. The rest of the article is an update the progress as a section and as a profession.

Description: This article discusses the actuarial image campaign and the approaches the initiative will be taking will is expected to provide greater opportunities for actuaries.

Description: Although many actuaries are employed in the insurance industry, opportunities are opening up in a number of non-traditional areas. These areas include the financial services industry, marketing/ sales organizations, environmental liability, and benefits management, among many others including this actuary who works for the circus Cirque du Soleil.

Description: The author presents the key issues and objectives for 2005 for the Actuary of the Future Section Council.