Description: The letter from the SOA president shares a personal history of actuarial education to achieve prestigious actuarial credentials, and emphasizes the importance of partnering with international actuarial organizations.

Description: Investing time to connect with co-workers, friends and family by maintaining a "to-who" list.

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

Description: This article discusses the differences between insurance direct marketers and actuaries and the similarities on which they can build.

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.

Description: Predictive models have disrupted the traditional underwriting process. In this session, we will review a decade in the life underwriting of a disruptor – the confluence of actuaries, underwriters and clinicians. In addition, perspectives of other stakeholders will be explored.

Description: After International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) issued International Financial Reporting Standard No. 17 – Insurance Contracts (“IFRS 17”), IASB received much feedback and suggestions for improvement. As a result, in early 2019, IASB made limited changes to IFRS 17. The presentation will briefly discuss the main contents and effects of those changes.

Description: Since the international financial crisis, accounting standards have become an important part of financial supervision rules, which objectively requires us to study the reform and development of accounting standards from the perspective of financial stability. Since the release of IFRS17 in 2017, the research and discussion of IFRS17 in the insurance industry has focused on technical details and implementation, while the economic impact and pros and cons analysis of IFRS17 are few. As a result, the industry's understanding of IFRS17 is not comprehensive enough, and there are still many disputes, and no industry consensus has been formed. In the future, the insurance industry should strengthen the research and analysis of IFRS17 from the perspective of financial stability, deepen the understanding and cognition of IFRS17, and improve the ability to control and use IFRS17.

Description: May 2020 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities

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.