Description: Email blast process and email preference setting description.

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

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: An application of GLM trees to mortality modeling using the Individual Life Experience Committee 2009-2015 dataset. GLM trees are a hybrid of GLMs and decision trees which are analogous to the way actuaries have analyzed data. The major benefits include speeding up actuarial analytic workflows, improving data understanding, and improving data visualization.

Description: Successful communications cannot be achieved simply by expressing an idea.How ideas are communicated can make or break a practice. This article gives eight steps to improve comunications within and without the practice.

Description: Discusses the peer-review process as it relates to articles submitted for TAXING TIMES.

Description: Chamberlin's first column as section chair, thanking outgoing chairman Christian DesRochers for his excellent leadership, and also thanking others and encouraging participation.

Description: Section chair highlights the accomplishments of the Taxation Section throughout the year, and gives thanks to others who contributed and encouraged.

Description: Article contains the minutes of the Smaller Insurance Company Section Council Meeting.

Description: Description of the upcoming activities for the Health Section.