Description: The Actuary of the Future section sponsored three sessions at each of the 2005 Society of Actuaries Spring Meetings: the Life Meeting May 23-24, 2005 and the Health/Pension Meeting June 15-17, 2005, both of which took place in New Orleans.

Description: This is a paper on how to become the go-to person or in other words, the person that stands out from the competition and gets better assignments through writing articles which show your ability to think strategically about client issues.

Description: As part of the 2019 Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest, this essay posits that the actuarial profession should respond to other fields encroaching on its space, particularly software development and data science, not by a defensive reaction to establish a boundary between fields but instead by a welcoming attitude that seeks to utilize expertise from other fields while maintaining the actuarial role of comprehensive risk management and its hard-earned professional trust.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This article is an interview with ‘pioneer’ Nooruddin [Rudy] S. Karsan, FSA, one of the co–founders of Kenexa® Corp., a leading end–to–end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing, that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees. The company was founded in 1987 and started with two employees. Today Kenexa has 1,600 employees. Karsan discusses his life and entrepreneurial career. He enjoys managing and building businesses, and the challenging opportunities, but that's just one part of his life the other is focusing on serving humanity—the two basic words, he says, that define Kenexa. From ‘The Actuary Magazine’ Volume 5 Issue 4.

Description: The momentum in value-based care has produced an opportunity for actuaries to become pioneers in health care

Description: John Dewan, FSA, and his non-traditional career into baseball and STATS

Description: The articles in this issue cover the alternate careers of risk management and personal actuary as well as on communication skills for actuaries.

Description: The Chairperson reviews the section council's focus on initiatives in two strategic areas—the career pioneer program and better meeting the needs of our section members.

Description: This article is an interview with Laura Bennett, FSA, CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance. Her company provides one–of–a–kind pet insurance. The Actuary recently asked Bennett some questions about her unusual use of actuarial training.