Description: This paper demonstrate how growing capital when businesses are failing and taking advantage of intellectual capital can assist a consulting actuary to become more successful and offer an alternative approach to expanding a consulting business.

Description: This is a discussion of the medical loss ratio, the confusion and debate over the calculation method under the new MLR requirement, and the opportunities it presents to consulting actuaries.

Description: Profiles of the Council Members by SOA from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.

Description: In this article, the author, an independent consulting actuary, discusses the process of becoming independent, providing advice on what you need to consider in making the transition from company employee to independent consultant.

Description: In addition to urging members to get involved and mentioning the upcoming section elections, the chairperson of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section discusses a proposal that would benefit both the big company and the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 'EAS' members: the author suggests that each large insurance company should designate an actuary as the chief entrepreneurial actuary responsible for acting as a portal for entrepreneurial ideas of an actuarial nature.

Description: This column highlights the visible activities of the EAS section: educational opportunities, networking, and essay contest.

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Description: The author offers suggestions for selecting the subject of an article to write for publication. His advice is to include information about issues you have solved for your clients, but avoid writing about broad expertise that you know a lot about. Rather he suggests that “by focusing on specific, truly relevant problems, your readers will gain the wisdom of your consulting expertise.”

Description: This article notes how “we can do much more at the company, industry and social level by combining what we know with other actuaries as well as members of other disciplines.” This will become easier due to social technologies that allow individuals to collaborate regardless of conventional barriers. The author asks “how do we use these new social technologies to leverage our existing actuarial skill set data in a way that creates value for customers and clients?”

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