Description: Column about the importance of volunteers to the SOA. From The Actuary, August/Sept 2010 Vol 7 Issue 4

Description: This article describes how the Estonian Actuarial Association got started. In 2011, the EAS has 26 members of them, of which eight are fully qualified.

Description: This column highlights the hobbies, pastimes and personal interests of SOA members.

Description: This column highlights the recent developments in the Investment, Marketing and Distribution, and Smaller Insurance Company Sections of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Over the years, much of the Society of Actuaries exam-related discussion has centered on structure, such as the number of tracks, many small exams versus a small number of large exams, ways to incorporate professionalism and nontechnical skills. Lost in those discussions is the process of continually improving the exams themselves. This article uses questions from old and new exams to show how the written-answer fellowship exams have changed to expect candidates to demonstrate higher level skills than in the past.

Description: Highlights from international events of interest to actuaries.

Description: Feature article describing recent changes to the SOA’s Research Dept. and what projects the dept. will be working on in the future.

Description: Column from the SOA’s Education department for the October/November 2012 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing the Centers For Actuarial Excellence’s student summit.

Description: The article explores the use of economic capital modeling to deliver value to clients by improving the financial security of many individual lives around the world in a cost-effective way.