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

Description: Jay Novik writes his last editorial as editor of The Actuary magazine. This issue is my last as editor. As I leave, I think about changes that we have made over the past three years and some changes that are being implemented as I write. The most noticeable is the move from a newsletter format to a glossy, four-color magazine. From The Actuary Magazine October 2005

Description: Table Of Contents. From The Actuary Magazine April 2005

Description: Other Post Employment Benefits OPEB deals with the promise of providing coverage for post employment non-pension benefits such as health care and life insurance. This article focuses on the recent implementation of GASB No. 43 and 45 which requires public entities to value and recognize the liability of post employment non-pension benefits.

Description: This article is about the cost-benefit relationship of advances in longevity and taking personal responsibility for one's own wellness.

Description: Feature article describing the need and reasoning for the new SOA Section, Social Insurance and Public Finance.

Description: This article explains the change in reinsurance in Brazil to an open market and why Rio de Janeiro should be the center of Brazil's reinsurance market. Prior to January 2008, all reinsurance was through the IRB, The Brazilian Reinsurance Institute founded in 1939 and jointly owned by the insurance companies that are licensed to do business in Brazil and by the Government of Brazil.

Description: Editorial discussing the tumultuous insurance industry and current financial crisis.

Description: This column descrbes the Society of Actuaries' Leadership Resource System, an important new project intended to help identify, develop and support the many members who volunteer their time or are elected to leadership positions.

Description: SOA Board approves code of conduct for candidates.