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: Rising drug—and, to a lesser extent, health care—costs in Canada are creating long-term challenges for not only governments and employers across Canada but for individuals as well, with no easy answers.

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.

Description: This is an article about the lack of savings by the baby boomers and how it will affect retirement and the ramifications for Social Security. The author believes that baby boomers will choose to continue to work and alleviate some of the burden on social security.

Description: Article highlighting the staff of the Meetings and Events and Customer Service departments at the SOA.

Description: In this article, Sam Phillips interviews Charles McClenahan, who provides litigation support and expert testimony, primarily as a ‘pioneer’ in the field of casualty actuarial forensics. McClenahan describes the type of work he does, which includes ‘cases involving actuarial malpractice, insurance company solvency standards, anti–trust, intellectual property, fraud, voidable preference, damages modeling, applicability of actuarial standards, reinsurance collectability and, in one case, arson and murder.’

Description: This article focuses on marketing opportunities and the impact of new international accounting standards on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. The author presents an update on these subjects from interviews with speakers at a session at the recent annual meeting.

Description: This is an article from The Actuary that discusses the need to reform defined benefit plans. The number of defined benefit plans in the United States has declined significantly over the past 20 years. If Congress overlooks the interests of plan sponsors in its reform, we're likely to witness further erosion of an already weakened defined benefit system, and America's workers would be the ultimate losers.

Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: This article offers an in-depth explanation of what life insurance is and how it is regulated.