Description: How to help your brain to focus and avoid making stupid mistakes.

Description: Article addresses how to effectively motivate volunteers.

Description: This is an editorial about the new format of the newsletter and impetus behind it.

Description: This article discusses the fact that consumers at large do not know that banks sell life insurance. Banks are encouraged to develop a more focused strategy to increase awareness and sales.

Description: Article from Pension Section News, May 2007, No. 64, discusses the Pension Protection Act PPA and the related misconceptions. The PPA has removed significant legislative uncertainty around pension funding rules. But there are lots of details. This article discusses the many unresolved issues related to near-term funding decisions.

Description: This article looks at five reasons why the new image campaign will succeed. From Reinsurance News, February 2005. Article from Re-news, February 2005

Description: This is an article from The Actuary that discusses the need to reform defined benefit plans. The number of defined benefit plans in the United States has declined significantly over the past 20 years. If Congress overlooks the interests of plan sponsors in its reform, we're likely to witness further erosion of an already weakened defined benefit system, and America's workers would be the ultimate losers.

Description: Discusses what a personal actuary is and what one typically does.

Description: This article focuses on marketing opportunities and the impact of new international accounting standards on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. The author presents an update on these subjects from interviews with speakers at a session at the recent annual meeting.

Description: This is an article about how our business environment has changed and how actuaries must evolve in order to retain their value to employers.