Description: Feature article that spotlights the SOA’s Actuarial Marketplace Solutions and Research departments.

Description: The Actuary interviews the Executive Vice President of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Newark, Donald R. Sondergald. Read about his prospects of becoming President of the Society of Actuaries and his opinions about the state of the actuarial profession. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 7

Description: IFRS 17 is a significant change that requires insurers to invest time and resources. The presenters will address wider implications of the new standard, and a senior leaders' panel will cover a number of perspectives. They will address the latest developments of the standard and interpretations, emerging technology that is accelerating implementation, insights from implementing IFRS 17 in Canada and globally, reinsurance considerations and opportunities for the actuarial profession.

Description: This 'Happy New Year' message briefly explains the functions of the sections of the SOA and summarizes the plans for the Management and Personal Development Section and its newsletter, The Stepping Stone.

Description: The author uses an analogy of a personal dental problem to convey how to market your services more effectively.

Description: 2nd place winner in the Actuary of the Future Section's Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest.

Description: As part of its ongoing effort to provide useful information on COVID-19, the Society of Actuaries issued a brief qualitative survey to its Retirement Section members to gain insight as to how COVID-19 is impacting the retirement programs and organizations they support, and also how it is impacting their work. The survey results are intended to help members compare their thinking and future expectations of COVID-19 with their peers, as well as inform future research efforts.

Description: Read the June 2020 issue of Expanding Horizons published by the Education and Research Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Newsletter, December 2021

Description: Many professions in the US recognize that minority under-representation is a real weakness in an increasingly multicultural world. The actuarial profession in the US has acknowledged this problem. However, acknowledging the problem is only the first step in solving it. This article sets out the level of commitment that will be necessary to SOLVE the problem, based on empirical research that the profession itself sponsored.