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: Hosting an event for Canadian students with funding from the SOA, CIA and CAS for the first actuarial conference of its kind in Atlantic Canada.

Description: Writing tips for actuaries – skipping the usual guidelines you get in most books on writing. They represent a half century of personal successes and failures.

Description: The authors take up two questions: • How do I create my Personal Development Plan? • How will the Competency Framework tool help me design my future?

Description: This is the editor letter for this issue. It summarizes the contents of the articles in the newsletter and the theme of the issue.

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

Description: Discusses the outcome of AOF council Face-to-Face meeting, and direction for the coming year.