Description: Redefining retirement: shifting demographics, evolving job profiles, unpredictable economic markets and rising health care costs.

Description: Summary of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee SPSC the SOA’s 2008-2012 Strategic Plan

Description: Feature article discussing the SOA’s competency framework and how it provides direction for professional development.

Description: The first of two parts of a roundtable discussion, by conference call, on the state of life reinsurance today in North America.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: Have you ever wondered why patterns persist in the stock market but never change our expected return? Efficient-market theory has been attacked by many sides, especially due to the existence of irrational investors.

Description: This article highlights the actuarial career of Dan McCarthy.

Description: This article contains information about The Actuarial Education and Research Fund’s third annual Practioners’ Award for research done in 1989. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on an analysis of risk management terminology: your guide to speaking ERM with different industries. Volumn 4, Issue 6

Description: The author suggests that the actuarial profession is a gold standard for other professions and that getting the next generation of actuaries involved early seems critical to ensuring the actuarial profession retains the title of the 'best job in America' for years to come. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.