Description: This file is the official rules for the SOA’s 2019 Workable Innovations for Living Longer (WILL) Contest.

Description: This is a commentary on strategies for overcoming the fear associated with placing a sales call.

Description: The third age can be viewed as a period between the traditional full-time employment career building period and fulltime retirement and leisure. Individuals combine work, volunteerism and leisure in different ways during this period. Some actuaries look at this period as one during which they might want to start a small consulting business. There is no generally accepted practice at present and maybe none will emerge. This article will look at issues related to the third age from the perspective of actuaries who move from full-time regular employment with an established business into a consulting practice. I will share personal experience in making such a transition.

Description: This is an article on the subject of peer reviews, why they should be done, when they should be done, who should do them and the benefits.

Description: This is a template for use in grading your persentations with a scoring key to measure your effectiveness.

Description: This is a nested stochastic modeling for insurance companies research report that's sponsored by the Financial Reporting and Modeling Sections and Committee on Life Insurance Research. Stochastic modeling is commonly used by financial reporting actuaries whenever financial reporting procedures such as reserving and capital requirement calculation, are performed under various economic scenarios, which are stochastically determined.

Description: A summary of the growing financial advising professional role actuaries can fulfill and why the time is right for the emergence of the Personal Actuary.

Description: This article stresses the importance of treating your IT network infrastructure as an indispensable utility as is required to run your email, Internet access, printing needs and a host of other mission-critical applications that you cannot function properly without.