Description: This article highlights the new offerings for online courses on the SOA web site as well as available audio tapes and on-line productions of meeting sessions.

Description: The article is a memorial to the life, work and accomplishments of the influential actuary Jeremy Gold. It describes his career and education in finance and how he used his background to fight for better risk management of pension plans especially those sponsored by state and local governments. It describes his research and important published papers, along with his involvement in the effort to educate the actuarial profession about financial economics. Some personal anecdotes are also included.

Description: Provides an overview of SFAS 60, 91, 97, and 120 and the importance of U.S. GAAP for Asian insurance companies with a country by country analysis.

Description: The author is an American actuary who was invited to Fudan University in Shanghai to give a few lectures. This article discusses his lectures and the discussions he had with the students.

Description: Chairperson's update on the International Section.

Description: The article provides insights about the need for revolutionary actuaries in Saudi Arabia due to the reform that is happening across the kingdom under all sectors. Then I talk briefly about the health sector and the transformation that is happing in the sector, and how qualified health actuaries can contribute to this health reform.

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: Monica Hainer, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, chief executive officer of London Life Reinsurance Company in Blue Bell, Penn., is the 2008 recipient of the ACLI Forum 500’s Distinguished Service Award. She received the award at the Forum 500’s Leadership Retreat in Washington, D.C. on May 14.

Description: The financial sector should provide financial security and allocate capital well. As its preeminent professionals actuaries have particular responsibilities.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker