Description: This article is an overview of the FAP course, a new e-learning tool that encompansses real-world applications and examples to demonstrate actuarial practice and to teach principles that help candidates make the transition from the preliminary examinations.

Description: CBS has a new show in its lineup about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical genius brother to help him fight crime. The show is called Numbers and although most things on TV don't really capture my imagination, I do enjoy this one. For one thing it gives my teenage daughters a point of reference with their friends. "Yes, my dad is an actuary. He's kind of like that crazy guy on numbers, saving the world, one math problem at a time." From The Actuary Magazine April 2006

Description: Non-actuary discusses how studying for the ASA exams has helped him to excel in his field.

Description: Principles serve as signposts of practice. They can be a combination of core truths, values, heuristics and paradigms that collectively encapsulate the theoretical underpinnings, mental processes and attitudes of the practitioner.

Description: Table of contents for December 2006 issue of The Actuary Magazine.

Description: Table Of Content

Description: A focus on the capital markets perspective and some of the products dealers offer to hedge and help mitigate capital costs and tail exposure risks. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005

Description: Article from The Actuary regarding the medical malpractice crisis. could a macro system be the answer to a reduction in medical malpractice costs? Information in this article points in that direction.

Description: In this era of enterprise risk management, actuaries should reassess what we tell the public about what we provide. We should allow buyers to make informed choices based upon all the facts. We should recognize that regulatory and judicial forces will be focused on the products we produce for a very long time. This 2004 editorial from The Actuary Magazine discusses some common financial practices that are undergoing closer regulatory scrutiny.

Description: This is an article that highlights recommended reading by the Health Practice area communications committee. The readings cover a broad subject matter from risk assessment, medical technology to uninsured.