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The Zen Actuary Installment 24: The Changing Winds of Desire
Latest installment in a series covering the application of Buddhist principles to the working world of actuaries. This installment specifically addresses how the desires and wishes of actuaries ...- Authors: Richard J Lauria
- Date: Jun 2025
- Competency: Communication; Professional Values; Relationship Management
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Diversity and the SOA
Diversity and the SOA The article describes my career in Diversity, starting at the workplace, and continuing during my current service on the Board. Readers should get ideas as to how they too ...- Authors: John Robinson
- Date: May 2016
- Competency: Leadership>Change management; Leadership>Influence; Relationship Management>Relationships and trust; Relationship Management>Team leadership
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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What Would You Do? Responses to “False Pretenses”
What Would You Do? Responses to “False Pretenses” A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision.- Authors: John West Hadley
- Date: Jan 2024
- Competency: Communication; Professional Values; Relationship Management
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
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Book Review: The Wisdom of Finance
Book Review: The Wisdom of Finance A review of Mihir Desai's book The Wisdom of Finance, and why actuaries specifically should read this book. 6442483892 7/1/2018 12:00:00 AM ...- Authors: Mary Campbell
- Date: Jul 2018
- Competency: Professional Values; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
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Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Actuarial Credentials Under Pressure to Compromise
Maintaining Your Sanity and Your Actuarial Credentials Under Pressure to Compromise This article is about not compromising your principles when pressured to do so from internal or external ...- Authors: Joel Kabala
- Date: Apr 2006
- Competency: Leadership>Influence; Professional Values>Ethical standards
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
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The Actuarial Ethicist: A Stochastic Cherry Orchard
The Actuarial Ethicist: A Stochastic Cherry Orchard A hypothetical workplace dilemma in which readers are invited to submit their comments and suggested solutions. Universal life; 11471 7/1/2010 ...- Authors: Frank Grossman
- Date: Jul 2010
- Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
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What Would You Do? Bad Grooming
What Would You Do? Bad Grooming A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case ...- Authors: John West Hadley
- Date: Jul 2019
- Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Management skills
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The Actuarial Ethicist: DAC Expectations
The Actuarial Ethicist: DAC Expectations An article on a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving the updating of assumptions which resulted in a change in EGPs and DAC amortization. Assumptions; ...- Authors: Frank Grossman
- Date: Oct 2010
- Competency: Professional Values>Ethical standards
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
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Interpersonal Skills and People Management: Actually, There’s More
Interpersonal Skills and People Management: Actually, There’s More Business leadership lessons from non-business leaders: interpersonal skills and people management Career planning 6442484890 10/ ...- Authors: Eli Amdur
- Date: Oct 2018
- Competency: Communication>Active listening; Communication>Oral communication; Communication>Persuasive communication; Communication>Written communication; Leadership>Change management; Leadership>Influence; Leadership>Thought leadership; Relationship Management>Staff management and motivation; Relationship Management>Team leadership
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics
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What Would You Do? Responses to “Is the Emperor Wearing Clothes?”
What Would You Do? Responses to “Is the Emperor Wearing Clothes?” A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other ...- Authors: John West Hadley
- Date: Nov 2014
- Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management>Relationships and trust
- Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice