Description: This article is an interview with Ron Gebhardtsbauer, Senior Pension Fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries about his career and how his passion for serving.

Description: This article discusses ways to get the most out of your career, including aligning your passions with your talents.

Description: Feature article discussing the new SOA stipend awards and featuring interviews with the first recipients.

Description: Discusses a major campaign to change the image of the actuary.

Description: This column descrbes the Society of Actuaries' Leadership Resource System, an important new project intended to help identify, develop and support the many members who volunteer their time or are elected to leadership positions.

Description: This editorial notes how change is constant in the world around us and that the SOA has adopted a theme of change. Articles in this issue of The Actuary, which are all related to change, are summarized.

Description: In July 2007, Mike McLaughlin, FIA, FSA, MAAA, became one of the first individuals to add a new credential from the Society of Actuaries after his name: CERA. Short for Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, the CERA is the first new credential from the SOA since it was formed in 1949. While the development of this new international credential was the work of many members over the past few years, McLaughlin was at the helm. From The Actuary Magazine October 2007

Description: Feature article that spotlights the SOA’s Actuarial Marketplace Solutions and Research departments.

Description: Editorial on financial crisis.

Description: This article announces enhancements to the directory of actuarial membership and personnel changes for The Actuary.