Description: This paper attempts to broaden awareness of the Actuarial Faculty Forum AFF within the academic actuarial community and to stimulate some conversation about the future role of this organization.

Description: The Actuarial Education and Research Fund AERF is a not for profit corporation organized under the applicable law of the State of Illinois in 1976. This paper focuses on the maturing of AERF as well as its creation and implementation by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Professional Development.

Description: In the past few years, SoA members and leaders have raised questions about future needs for actuarial skills, globalization of markets, and the appropriate focus of the present education system in preparing actuaries for their professional futures. As a consequence of these questions, the SoA Board of Governors set aside a major portion of its January 1994 meeting to discuss the education of actuaries, with primary consideration being given to a longer horizon than the immediate future. Chris Daykin, representing the Institute of Actuaries, reported that the Institute was incorporating fundamental changes to its basic Education and Examination [E&E] system. These changes were aimed at focusing more on fundamental principles and away from details of practice.

Description: The purpose of this brief presentation is to make the actuarial research community more aware of the Committee on Knowledge Extension Research CKER and the role it plays both within the Society of Actuaries' research functions and with other actuarial organizations, particularly the Actuarial Education and Research Fund AERF.