Description: This article reviews how to earn and keep track of CE credits for the SOA CPD requirement. The requirement begins on January 1, 2009.

Description: The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the research mission of the SOA, its inner workings, major efforts, funding and its unique qualities.

Description: Response to Letter to Shiraz Jetha about his article on microfinance and microinsurance.

Description: This article summarizes how to hire the best employees. Hiring the best employee means a whole lot more than marking off items on a checklist. It takes planning, prioritizing and the ability to spot potential.

Description: Linda M. Springer, FSA, MAAA, spent more than 25 years in the financial services industry in executive positions responsible for general and financial management and strategic operational planning. Springer is now the eighth director of the United States Office of Personal Management. In this interview, she discusses government life, on–the–job challenges and how her actuarial background has helped her progress in her career.

Description: Editorial on being healthy and living to 100.

Description: Make sure you vote in the upcoming SOA elections. Here’s all the information you’ll need, including a list of candidates.

Description: April/May 2008 Volume 5 Number 2 Bi-Monthly membership benefit magazine

Description: This web page contains a link to the Retirement Probability Analyzer software which was created by Professor Moshe Milevsky and the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions 'IFID' Centre. The software explores in great detail the fundamental question of whether one will run out of money before dying, while maintaining a desired standard of living. The software has been written to compute probabilities associated with a variety of retirement investment and spending strategies. It is intended to serve as a pedagogical tool to help the user develop an intuition for the impact of various asset allocation and annuity purchase decisions. The software is not intended as a comprehensive retirement planning tool and should not be used, under any situation, for this purpose.

Description: An analysis of U.S. mortality trends by socioeconomic category from 1982 to 2023, emphasizing the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality disparities.