Description: This column highlights the recent developments in the Financial Reporting, Long Term Care Insurance, and Management & Personal Development Sections of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article examines the dynamic environment of the health care system in the United States and the challenges facing the health actuary.

Description: Department column featuring an interview with Sim Segal.

Description: United States actuaries have traditionally focused their attention on the liability side of pension fund balance sheets. However, with the private pension system now one of the largest sources of national capital, there is an opportunity for actuaries to establish themselves as primary sources of investment-related information and advice.

Description: Background and overview of “Land This Plane,” a Delphi study undertaken by the Long Term Care Insurance Section and Forecasting & Futurism Section.

Description: This article is about the Course 8 series. Course 8 provides candidates with essential advanced specialized education in one of seven practice areas: individual insurance, group life and health, managed care, U.S. pensions, Canadian pensions, finance, and investments.

Description: The editorial reflects on the opportunities for professional and personal development involved in being a contributing editor for The Actuary.

Description: In this article about professional development, the new competency network is descibed and and emerging job opportunities in health care analytics are discussed.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 5 that talks about the various ways of constructing systems and suggests the desirability of establishing measures of efficiency for the alternatives so that we may rationally choose among them.

Description: Discussion of the career of a health insurance actuary who worked in an insurance company, consulting firm and government