Description: Servant Leadership is a leadership philosophy that focuses on organizational success through serving and enriching the lives of the employees. As employees become engaged the organization becomes more vibrant, sustainable and successful. Four primary principles are discussed: Create an Environment for Employee Growth; Provide Employees What the Need to Thrive; Remove Obstacles to Employee Achievement; Help Employees Reach Organizational and Personal Goals. Trust, creativity, shared vision, listening, job skills and personal attention lift employees up, creating high quality, engaged employees that help drive organizational success and create a pool from which the next generation of leaders for the company will emerge.

Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: The Health Section Council Chairperson looks back at a historic year for the health care industry, and what it means for health actuaries.

Description: Chairman's perspectives on the Section and R&R

Description: Describes joint meeting in February 2015 between Investment Section representatives and NY Society for Quantitative Analysts, on pension investing in an LDI framework.

Description: Update on activities in the Investment Section for 2016. Asks members to volunteer.

Description: Provides the results of the April - Sept 2015 contest organized by the section.

Description: Crossword puzzle

Description: Profile of an actuary who makes sculptures out of sand and snow.; Profile of an actuary who pursues geocaching.

Description: The letter from the president provides background and updates in the development of the Society of Actuaries’ General Insurance specialty track.