Description: An article that reprints R. Stephen Radcliffe's, 1993-94 President, address at SOA Annual Meeting New York City on October 19, 1993. Outlined are the challenges facing the actuarial profession and his personal focus of the enhancement of the research and educational efforts of the SOA.

Description: An article provides the Presidential Address given by R. Stephen Radcliffe, President, Society of Actuaries Address at Annual Meeting. The Society of Actuaries is emerging as a global player, a significant and challenging role.

Description: The author discusses the need for actuaries to be prepared to succeed and thrive in a new environment where the competition comes from around the globe and from other professions. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: An article announcing that the Casualty Actuarial Society CAS and the Society of Actuaries SOA agree to form a joint task force to achieve unity on actuarial principles. The task force guidelines and objectives are provided.

Description: A discussion of the changes to the method of grading omitted and erroneous answers on some of the multiple choice Society of Actuaries exams and a discussion as to the equivalence of the methods in determining passing candidates

Description: Presidential address by outgoing Society of Actuaries President R. Stephen Radcliffe. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: This article announces that the Society Board has reaffirmed its desire to adopt actuarial principles as statements of opinion by forming a new Committee on Actuarial Principles. The types of principles considered are Basic Principles, Methodology Principles = Techniques, and Behavioral Principles = Standards of Practice.

Description: A simple mission statement for the actuarial profession could be “We do insurance risk.” Maybe in the future we could expand our horizons and just say, “We do risk.” With either statement, the main word is risk. We analyze it, quantify it, manage it, monitor it, model it and project it. We are the experts in insurance risk. We are the “engineers” of the financial security systems that have developed in free economies.

Description: Panel examines ideas to enhance the relationship between the actuarial profession and the academic community. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the Valuation Actuary, the changing role and the actuarial opinion. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B