Description: Today's pressure for profitability, coupled with a widespread demand for internal and external transparency, has elevated the importance of data and the need to understand how it relates to all aspects of an insurance operation. This article discusses how actuaries can better communicate with other disciplines within an insurance operation.

Description: An overview of Dan Ariely’s body of research.

Description: A discussion of the effective use of social media for risk management professionals to help educate the general public, including analysis of natural disaster responses, and the importance of establishing credibility as an online expert.

Description: Leadership inspiration essay asserting that the things that are the most valuable to us are also the things that we have to work the hardest for.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved an actuarial manager facing the potential resignation of a key employee.

Description: The article provides a general description of the DISC assessment, and how it can be used in your professional and personal life.

Description: Candace Woods, the chief actuary of Prudential, shared her career trajectory and lessons learned for work and life.

Description: What does leadership look like within the actuarial industry, what are some variables, and what practical advice can we learn?

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved an actuarial hiring decision.

Description: Table 1 for 2009 Pension Section Survey: Update and Action Plan showing types of research being done by the Pension Section Council and their time frame