Description: A Note from the Editor...encouraging actuaries to expand into some nontraditional areas.

Description: Communication is how you think about problems, how you present ideas and how you relate to your audience. An actuary presents alternate ways to communicate to groups of life insurance agents.

Description: The author defines Enterprise-wide risk management as the management of the risks inherent in the basic model used by the enterprise to represent and understand its overall operations. However, the practice of enterprise-wide risk management is a risk in itself.

Description: The Younger Actuaries Network, YAN, is a special interest subgroup within the SOA’s Actuary of the Future Section. YAN has aimed to fill a void for actuaries across experience levels, disciplines and employers by giving them a means of interacting and learning from one another. This article discusses a networking event.

Description: In the midst of the financial crisis, a group of actuaries, representing the Joint Risk Management Section, the Investment Section, the International Network of Actuarial Risk Managers, and the Enterprise Risk Management Institute International published an extensive list of articles entitled, “Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Implications”.

Description: A summary of Tonya Manning’s interview on the TV show, DL Hughley Breaks the News. Ms. Manning is Chief Actuary of AON Consulting, and she discussed the actuarial profession.

Description: This article is about career goals and achieving them.

Description: The author discusses his journey to becoming an FSA at the age of 20.

Description: Section chairperson takes a look back at how he became involved, through volunteering, with the SOA and encourages section members to do the same.

Description: The author explores the nature of risk in the actuarial profession and suggests that all of us actuaries in the world are connected by this common bond.