Description: This article is a welcome letter from the SOA Board of Governors to The Actuary Magazine

Description: A former health actuary, who became a health insurance expert witness, tells about her work, who she deals with, and how she gets business.

Description: Reports the results of one application of a Future Research technique-in this case, forecasting future economic variables.

Description: Discusses the influences that foreign economies have on the U.S. economy and the risks that those influences create for the U.S. life insurance industry.

Description: This is a review of 'Restructuring Retirement Risks,' a collection of papers that examines retirement risks, edited by David Blitzstein, Olivia Mitchell, and Stephen Utkus. The papers, which are a must–read for serious students of retirement systems and a good introduction for those not as familiar with the issues, explore the stresses being placed on those systems and ever–increasing uncertainty as Baby Boomers begin to move into retirement.

Description: This article examines the dynamic environment of the health care system in the United States and the challenges facing the health actuary.

Description: This article was written in June 2008, prior to the financial crisis in the fall of 2008. It discusses the very complicated new world of financial insturments and derivatives and the risks that there may be in light of no strong capital requirements, no control on leverage and the high derivative volume.

Description: The Brazilian market is presently the largest life market in Latin America, so the recent news regarding the abolishment of the reinsurance monopoly there will certainly place Brazil on the radar screens of all major life reinsurers. The article describes the impact on the Brazilian lfe insurance market and the international reinsurance market.

Description: Presidential column about cooperation amongst the various actuarial organizations.

Description: Article highlighting Larry Bader’s career and achievements.