Description: Issue introduction and theme of how to improve our technical skills and soft skills to better cope with a rapidly changing world.

Description: Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue No. 2 of The Record of the Society of Actuaries. These records were taken from the New York meeting, April 17-18, 1975.

Description: Discussion of recent Society of Actuaries sponsored research.

Description: A discussion of the Egyptian Society of Actuaries, founded in February 1999

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Description: Panel discussion on current issues, trends, and methodology in individual disability income insurance, including overinsurance, pricing, financial reporting, as well as efforts by professional associations to address these issues.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.