Description: This web page contains links to the following articles of interest to actuaries: 1. A July 9, 2011 New York Times editorial about recent studies suggesting that antidepressants aren’t effective after all, and 2. A March 10, 2011 Time Magazine article by Joel Stein titled, 'Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You.'

Description: This is a chart from the article Shouldering the Cost of Employee Stock Options which shows the values at each node.

Description: This is a report on the Faculty meeting on 21 March regarding the funding of defined benefit pension schemes.

Description: This article in the first in a series meant to highlight and explore the skills and knowledge actuaries have to offer as members of a Board of Directors, as well as what it takes to get there. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: The author suggests that the actuarial profession is a gold standard for other professions and that getting the next generation of actuaries involved early seems critical to ensuring the actuarial profession retains the title of the 'best job in America' for years to come. From The Actuary, February 2012, Volume 9, Issue 1.

Description: The December 2013/January 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Rising drug—and, to a lesser extent, health care—costs in Canada are creating long-term challenges for not only governments and employers across Canada but for individuals as well, with no easy answers.

Description: Feature article discussing opportunities for actuaries in the health care industry.

Description: Discusses the different forms of guarantees that have been used in life insurance, and the various means of analyzing and establishing financial support to assure that these promises can be met.

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.