Description: The author, outgoing chairperson of the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section, ‘EAS,’ relays thanks to various individuals who have helped advance the goals of the section, and describes a request to the SOA, submitted by the EAS to develop a separate website for finding actuaries. “This would not be an extension of the SOA Directory which allows actuaries to find actuaries but a website for public access to actuaries who would register as independent entrepreneurs, small business and larger consulting firms.”

Description: This article describes the past, present and future of the SOA’s sections. There are now 19 sections and nearly 35,000 section memberships.

Description: President Smith's speech focuses on the need for actuaries to be better spokepeople and advocates for good sound improvement in social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Health Care reform.

Description: A Q&A with the magazine’s new contributing editors. Questions included how they plan to influence the magazine and what is was about the role of contributing editor that attracted them.

Description: Announcement of the winners of the awards for Financial Reporter OutStanding Treatises - FROSTies - and Financial Reporter Uniquely Memorable Papers - FRUMPies - and what they received.

Description: The article is a re-cap of the Chairman's last three years as a member of the Investment Section Council.

Description: Overview of the seven trends affecting the Actuarial profession .

Description: This article provides a basic overview of how Health Section research is initiated and conducted including the roles different parties play. Issue No 60

Description: An interview with John Bauerlein, equity principal and consulting actuary with Milliman, on his actuarial career and what it means to be a leader.

Description: To outsiders, the actuary's work is not well known. This article shows how actuaries add social and economic value across disciplines.