Description: By relating to his own experience, Steven Chin reveals the meaning of networking and how it can affect one's life. His advice helps guide us on how to interact in a business setting and find mentorship within and outside the actuarial community.

Description: Summary of actuarial summit in California

Description: Leadership skills

Description: Read the November 2017 issue of Actuary of the Future, published by the Actuary of the Future Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Jacob Pratt, who used to a Math teacher, shares his story to becoming an actuary.

Description: This piece is on Risk normalization and looks to draw upon underlying ideas as to why in some cases, risks are under or over analyzed from an individual perspective in society. This piece is intended to make the reader think about what risks they partake in on a daily basis that may have been 'numbed' in some sense by societal normalization fo these risk. Conversely, readers also may be questioned with what risks have overplayed by society, in particular risks that have been over inflated by media and other driving factors.

Description: Phil Gold reviews the effect of the competency framework on various stages of inception and development of the AXIS Actuarial System.

Description: As an undergrad student, I discussed about my understanding of how AI is going to influence insurance industry through my volunteer experience with the SOA Actuarial Innovation and Technology Repository.

Description: Editorial overview and issue introduction

Description: As actuaries, we learn about risk. We identify, quantify and assess risks. Ironically, however, because of our training we don’t see the greatest risk to our profession. The risk is: Our relevance and value to our customers is already and will continue to be diminished if we don’t make some fundamental changes now.