Description: Article discussing the best ways to attest continuing professional development.

Description: As a dynamic entrepreneur, the question is not if you’ll need to prepare for high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations, but when you will have them. If you’re looking toward a business conversation where you want the outcome to be positive-oriented and forward-looking, there is some risk involved. It is worth your time to prepare and differentiate yourself before any words are spoken. Risk, in this situation, means that it could negatively or positively impact one or more of the following: Relationships, business outcomes, timing/efficiency, quality metrics, performance, or more. There is a literal cost to this kind of conversation going wrong! In this article, Libby Wagner shows actuarial entrepreneurs how to hold tough conversations that demonstrate respect and bring about the results they want.

Description: An overview of the articles in the November 2019 issue of The Modeling Platform, and a plea for submissions! Please! Send us articles!

Description: Writing articles is not as hard as most people think, but it does take some thought and planning. This article gives practical tips about how to put "pen to paper" and write an effective article.

Description: This article describes how the SOA worked with the American Academy of Actuaries to ensure lessons learned from the financial crisis were shared with congress. Also covered were the movement to virtual sessions at SOA meetings and the project to combine the Life Spring Meeting and the Product Development Symposium.

Description: A description of the sessions the AOF Section is sponsoring at the Spring Meetings.

Description: The SOA’s Professional Development Committee and its five areas of interest this year.

Description: Recap of 2008 section activities and introduction of 2009 goals.

Description: The new chairperson talks about the section activities for the year ahead.