Description: This is one actuary's tale about her experience with business analytics involving bats, stats, and a task force. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: List of key initiatives for the Society of Actuaries and how they were developed.

Description: Vision and mission are just two links between successful mountain climbing and launching a successful business. Clear objectives, solid strategies and thorough action plans are the other links. This article describes these parallels between mountain climbing and launching a successful business.

Description: The money in customer accounts follows a systematic, yet sometimes elaborate maze. This article establishes a check list of 10 item that will ensure that client accounts are being correctly credited, operations are functioning a they were designed and operational risk is reduced.

Description: This article is a profile of Jim Tilley, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries a founding trustee of The Actuarial Foundation in 1994. He responds to a few questions about his career.

Description: This article reports on the unveiling of a revitalized 'brand' for actuaries revealed at the recent SOA Annual Meeting including the speech by past president Bob Beuerlein and other activities throughout the meeting. The new tagline 'Risk is Opportunity' was introduced and embraced by the members.

Description: This article summarizes a survey on career satisfaction and advancement conducted last fall via FutureRisk.org. The survey asked actuaries about topics ranging from their current job situation, employer and professional aspirations to job satisfaction, career advancement activities and training received via various resources.

Description: This graph indicates the overall historical trend in life expectancy at age 65.

Description: Column describing SOA efforts to strengthen relationship with academia and summary of actuaries in the news.

Description: This article gives a brief description of the 2011 SOA Annual Meeting held in Chicago. Also shown are briefs about the actuarial profession in the news.