Description: This article discusses challenges that short-term predictions have on actuaries' reputations, both as individuals and as a profession, and discusses strategies to improve our professionalism and better manage this risk.

Description: Discusses the insurance and actuarial profession in India.

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: Actionable tips to improve the readability of business e-mails.

Description: Attempting to define what actuaries do from a student's perspective

Description: Three actuaries describe their experience of international working.

Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.

Description: A personal account of an international assignment opportunity in Switzerland.

Description: Summary of articles in the 2018 April issue of SOA AOF newsletter.