Description: The author presents his firm's approach enabling their actuaries to communicate more broadly.

Description: This article stresses the importance of continually assessing your business skills and outlines the most important skills for development.

Description: This article summarizes the discussion from the spring meeting session: Managing Your Career Within a Traditional Employee Setting. Perspectives are shared from a consultant's view, and within an insurance company.

Description: Much of enterprise risk management has its roots in portfolio management and corporate finance. The concepts of trading off risk and return and benefits of diversification are well understood and articulated in both the actuarial and economics fields, so I don’t believe there are significant knowledge gaps preventing actuaries from contributing to the field. In fact, actuaries may have an advantage in many situations where a large part of a firm’s overall risk arises from pension activities or other more typical actuarial risks.

Description: Evidence is building from the physical sciences that we are starting to reach some of earth’s limits. Unless we can find some technological solutions, once these limits are reached, we can expect to see a very changed world. Instead of having constantly increasing resources available to us, we can expect ever-decreasing resources to be available. Instead of seeing year after year of growth, increasing longevity and improving morbidity, we can expect the opposite.

Description: Discussion of areas of focus for the Actuary of the Future Section for the year, by the Chair.

Description: A roundtable discussion of changes in the nature of actuarial work and the skills actuaries will need to be successful in the future.

Description: A review of an AOF webcast that included making the most of a mentor/protégé relationship and networking.

Description: An article covering the saturation of the entry-level actuarial job market and how to focus on improving your situation.

Description: Guidelines for entering the speculative fiction contest.