Description: This paper delves in the four pillars that support the professional exercise of an actuarial mathematician: operating, teaching, consulting and researching.

Description: Interview with the current Chair of the Retirement Section Council, describing the work of the Council and other topics.

Description: A real-life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study found amid-career actuary uprooting his family for a new job that involved promotion to Chief Actuary. Shortly after, he found that the company was in serious financial difficulty, and he felt he'd been deceived during the interview process.

Description: This piece is on Risk normalization and looks to draw upon underlying ideas as to why in some cases, risks are under or over analyzed from an individual perspective in society. This piece is intended to make the reader think about what risks they partake in on a daily basis that may have been 'numbed' in some sense by societal normalization fo these risk. Conversely, readers also may be questioned with what risks have overplayed by society, in particular risks that have been over inflated by media and other driving factors.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation. This issue’s case study involved an actuary trying to add to staff, who encounters questionable behavior by a prominent actuarial recruiter. What the actuary actually did is shared after the compiled responses.

Description: A story about a mother/actuary’s journey of discovering her work-life balance through entrepreneurship.

Description: Joint Risk Management Section chairperson's corner, June 2023

Description: The incoming E&R chair for the coming year reflects on past accomplishments of the E&R council, acknowledges with thanks contributors, and looks forward to continuation in the coming year.

Description: The author shares their experiences and timeline in building an actuarial science program from scratch and reaching the Advanced Curriculum level

Description: Latest installment in a series covering the application of Buddhist principles to the working world of actuaries. This installment specifically addresses how the desires and wishes of actuaries are never truly satisfied but rather just shift to other wants and desires, and what actuaries can do to find more peace in their workplace and careers.