Description: Neil Brougham, chairman of the CPD Committee, welcomes the new certificate in practical financial economics CPFE.

Description: Final installment of a series on the evolution of risk management with a close look at high profile failed corporations.

Description: This article provides a flavor for the wealth of statistical information provided by the Bureau Of Economic Analysis. It describes the BEA program, tells how to obtain BEA outputs, and looks at some issues BEA faces.

Description: This article discusses the effects of economic cycles on the health insurance business.

Description: This is an article about how our business environment has changed and how actuaries must evolve in order to retain their value to employers.

Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: A summary of how the SAO plans to strengthen the role of the academic branch of the profession through Centers of Actuarial Excellence and Ph.D. stipends.

Description: Detailed information about a Measurement Framework to evaluate existing designs and to illustrate how certain designs do or do not meet the fundamentals and where tradeoffs lie.

Description: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: This is an interview with Shane Chalke, FSA, MAAA, who has started three businesses since 1983. Chalke, the youngest person ever to be elected to the SOA Board of Governors, has a knack for making the right business decisions. He tells how his actuarial background has played a role in his success, and what makes him a winner.