Description: Heart disease, critical illness insurance and the path to change – a personal essay by Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA, FLMI.

Description: An invitation to the readers of CompAct to enter a fiction writing contest.

Description: Chair’s letter introduces the new section leadership.

Description: Customers, quality and efficiency are the three key components to successful reports. This article explores those components as well as technology and product knowledge and details how to create successful reports.

Description: Actuaries without Borders® (AWB) is a section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) that helps provide temporary actuarial services in parts of the world where those services are lacking

Description: Chairperson's update on the International Section.

Description: In “Gearing up for Designing Your Future,” published in the May 2017 issue of Actuary of the Future, the author cited four heroes as his personal inspiration. This article is the successor, showing the glory of these heroes and how they can inspire us actuaries today, as we strive to live our best lives. Identifying your own Noble Purpose as an actuary and in your life makes creating a five-year plan for personal growth meaningful and motivating. What will you gain from reading biographies of famous people and the classics? To aspire, to approach eloquence, to emulate the poetry of how they put their ideas across to mobilize their publics, to elevate our own characters by their examples, to be fully equipped to make moral and ethical judgments, to master the primary tool, verbal communication.

Description: This article presents a fable about the issues that arise between marketers and actuaries in the product development process.

Description: Recent events and commentary from a member of the JRMS council.

Description: Regular Corner where the Editor introduces the new issue and summarizes its content.