Description: This article explores compound and simple interest and the accumulation function for the case when time t is a noninteger value.

Description: Column highlighting education committee volunteers and the benefits of volunteering.

Description: Discusses author's to Malaysia where he gave a lecture at University Science Malaysia and spoke at a seminar on actuarial education. Most of the discussion focuses on the seminar.

Description: Over the years, much of the Society of Actuaries exam-related discussion has centered on structure, such as the number of tracks, many small exams versus a small number of large exams, ways to incorporate professionalism and nontechnical skills. Lost in those discussions is the process of continually improving the exams themselves. This article uses questions from old and new exams to show how the written-answer fellowship exams have changed to expect candidates to demonstrate higher level skills than in the past.