Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.

Description: Writing tips for actuaries – skipping the usual guidelines you get in most books on writing. They represent a half century of personal successes and failures.

Description: A personal account of an international assignment opportunity in Switzerland.

Description: Discusses the outcome of AOF council Face-to-Face meeting, and direction for the coming year.

Description: Description of AOF's April 2018 webcast with Penn State students, as well as the questions raised during the webcast and key takeaways.

Description: How the speed of change is accelerating and how we could react to this as a profession.

Description: A summary to inform the members of Actuary of the Future section's strategy in 2020.

Description: This article proposes that using common techniques employed by actuaries to manage risk like economic capital could be effective in mitigating financial losses that face the airline industry during COVID-19.

Description: Applying Predictive Analytics for Insurance Assumptions Setting: high level principles.

Description: Article discussing how geospatial imagery and high-resolution image technology are transforming property insurance.