Description: Lessons learned over the past ten years of being an ex-patriat.

Description: Update from the Health Section Council Chairperson on council activities.

Description: The SOA is committed to meeting member and candidate needs outside North America.

Description: A transcript of questions and responses from the 2016 Nashville Life and Annuity Symposium Actuaries in the C-Suite session.

Description: Update on issues, priorities and key messages from the Joint CAS / CIA / SOA Risk Management Section Council.

Description: To share with my fellow actuaries a proposed approach to health care in America and encourage a dialogue with actuaries and others in order to advocate implementing the proposal.

Description: Benefits of belonging to SOA special interest sections.

Description: Over the years, much of the Society of Actuaries exam-related discussion has centered on structure, such as the number of tracks, many small exams versus a small number of large exams, ways to incorporate professionalism and nontechnical skills. Lost in those discussions is the process of continually improving the exams themselves. This article uses questions from old and new exams to show how the written-answer fellowship exams have changed to expect candidates to demonstrate higher level skills than in the past.

Description: Summarizes the Section's sponsored 2011 Annual Meeting sessions: business meeting, receptions and 3 programs - 'IFRS: The Future of Accounting for Insurance and its Implications', 'Where Enterprise Risk Management Meets Capital Management' and 'Managing Longevity and Mortality Risks and their Global Activities', plus some non-technical sessions on successful retirement.

Description: The article highlights the lack of local actuaries in the arab region, and the limited availability of actuarial education especially in the local language.