Description: This is a discussion about actuaries, stochasticity and risk management. This article is a response to Max Rudolph's ERM As A Competitive Advantage: Moving Beyond PBA to Add Value The Actuary, April/May 2007.

Description: This article is about the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium which highlighted changes in longevity, biological perspectives, mortality trends and more .

Description: Read an interview conducted with potential SOA President Charles Barry H. Watson. Learn what he thinks about the current state of the SOA and how he envisions its future. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: Feature article describing the latest opinions on fair value accounting.

Description: This article describes the past, present and future of the SOA’s sections. There are now 19 sections and nearly 35,000 section memberships.

Description: A Q&A with the magazine’s new contributing editors. Questions included how they plan to influence the magazine and what is was about the role of contributing editor that attracted them.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article is an interview with ‘pioneer’ Nooruddin [Rudy] S. Karsan, FSA, one of the co–founders of Kenexa® Corp., a leading end–to–end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing, that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees. The company was founded in 1987 and started with two employees. Today Kenexa has 1,600 employees. Karsan discusses his life and entrepreneurial career. He enjoys managing and building businesses, and the challenging opportunities, but that's just one part of his life the other is focusing on serving humanity—the two basic words, he says, that define Kenexa. From ‘The Actuary Magazine’ Volume 5 Issue 4.

Description: The book, 'Individual Accounts for Social Perspectives on the U.S. Debate' by John Turner, is reviewed in light of recent congressional failure to reform Social Security and in light of a survey of actuaries that produced divergent views on the subject [link to survey included].

Description: Who are the members of the Society of Actuaries? What sections do they belong to? Do most reside within the United States? Just what are some of the population characteristics of the more than 18,000 actuaries who belong to our organization? The areas covered here include section affiliation, countries represented, ages of FSA's and more.