Description: An article summarizing the SOA Asia-Pacific Annual Symposium held June 12 - 13, 2024.

Description: Self-management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and direct your behavior positively. When you understand what you are feeling, you can effectively choose how to react. Knowing your individual tendencies can help you prepare for future events by consciously deciding to change or adjust your behavior when certain situations occur. The article shares strategies, examples and personal insights to illustrate how to develop the skill of self-management.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit the irresponses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved a staff performance issue faced by an actuary new to management.

Description: Generation Z was born between 1997 and 2012. They represent 25% of the world’s population and will make up 27% of the workforce by 2025. While they may be young, Gen Z bring important characteristics to the actuarial profession. They possess a deep understanding of emerging technology and digital platforms, having grown up in a world characterized by rapid innovation and limitless connectivity. In addition to their technical know-how, Gen Z also demonstrates strong EQ and interpersonal skills, such as adaptability, inclusiveness, social consciousness, and resilience, which equip them to navigate complex challenges and drive positive change in the workplace.

Description: Join the PAI-SOA Joint Seminar to connect with actuaries, insurance, finance, and investment professionals from Indonesia, the Asia-Pacific region, and beyond. Enhance your professional knowledge and connections in this collaborative environment.

Description: The SOA Decision-Making and Communication e-course builds on the skills actuaries need to make decisions when many stakeholders are involved.

Description: The latest installment in a series that applies Buddhist philosophy to the everyday working world of actuaries. This installment chronicles the author's career transition from corporate actuary to academia, relating the challenges faced to those periodically encountered by all actuaries during their career journeys.

Description: Executive Coach Marcel Schwantes demonstrated that applying daily practices of Servant Leadership is really the best way to engage workers to perform at a high level, which will improve the bottom line. Here Schwantes returns to kick-off a six part series that delves deep into the best practices of what a servant leader is, and does.

Description: This article focuses on how to create a better relationship between marketing and legal departments using a four step strategy.

Description: Servant Leadership is a leadership philosophy that focuses on organizational success through serving and enriching the lives of the employees. As employees become engaged the organization becomes more vibrant, sustainable and successful. Four primary principles are discussed: Create an Environment for Employee Growth; Provide Employees What the Need to Thrive; Remove Obstacles to Employee Achievement; Help Employees Reach Organizational and Personal Goals. Trust, creativity, shared vision, listening, job skills and personal attention lift employees up, creating high quality, engaged employees that help drive organizational success and create a pool from which the next generation of leaders for the company will emerge.