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 a very new actuarial manager trying to deal with a disruptive employee.

Description: An update on the activities of the JRMS Council.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This case study involved an actuary who felt he had been lied to during the interview, but only found out after he moved his family and started the job. What should he do?

Description: To provide high level information on a book selected and discussed during the December book club session, The Ten Commandments of Risk Leadership. In addition, this article serves as a promotion of the SOA book club as well as the upcoming sessions.

Description: A article summarizing the SOA 2024 Regional Symposium in Riyadh

Description: As part of the 2019 Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest, this essay posits that the actuarial profession should respond to other fields encroaching on its space, particularly software development and data science, not by a defensive reaction to establish a boundary between fields but instead by a welcoming attitude that seeks to utilize expertise from other fields while maintaining the actuarial role of comprehensive risk management and its hard-earned professional trust.

Description: Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series of three covering the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework. The subsequent articles will appear in future issues of the Actuary of the Future newsletter. The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework is a powerful tool to enable you to design your future. Though it has been the SOA’s instrument for prioritizing continuing education and support to members since 2010, many actuaries are still not fully aware what a potent tool it can be to them in planning their personal careers.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article, based on the book, True Professionalism by David H. Maister, offers four tests that a leader must meet.

Description: This newsletter suggests that the building and maintaining relationships the is key to success in both personal and business relationships, particularly in the employee benefits consulting business. In addressing the need for actuaries to build these skills a series of workshops is planned and presented.