Description: An overview of John Robinson's experience at the recently concluded annual meeting of the Caribbean Actuarial Association in Trinidad.

Description: An update to the risk management readers on what the JRMS is planning to do over 2023 to serve its membership.

Description: Court is in session and you are the jury! Follow along as challenging aspects of actuarial professionalism are explored in a court-like setting. Deliberate based on what you already know from your own experience as well as what you learn in this session, and then deliver your verdict accordingly. Who says learning about actuarial professionalism can't also be fun?

Description: To outsiders, the actuary's work is not well known. This article shows how actuaries add social and economic value across disciplines.

Description: An interview with John Bauerlein, equity principal and consulting actuary with Milliman, on his actuarial career and what it means to be a leader.

Description: Briefly discusses the Taiwan Actuarial Community as of September 2000.

Description: Highlights a visit made by the President of the Society of Actuaries to the Far East. Specifically, he shares his learnings about the actuarial profession in Shanghai, Bejjing, Hong Kong and Taipei, locations that contain more than 6 percent of the SOA membership.

Description: AWB Global mentorship program , how it's beneficial for an Actuarial student in a market with scarce Actuarial resources. And how this programme supports AWB objective in promoting the actuarial profession in areas of the world in which it is not present or is not fully developed.

Description: Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series of three covering the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework. The subsequent articles will appear in future issues of the Actuary of the Future newsletter. The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework is a powerful tool to enable you to design your future. Though it has been the SOA’s instrument for prioritizing continuing education and support to members since 2010, many actuaries are still not fully aware what a potent tool it can be to them in planning their personal careers.

Description: In this translation of an original article by Oscar E. Velandia, the role of the actuary in the Colombian insurance market place in light of regulatory change is examined. A comparison with the rules from the Solvency II Directive puts the actuarial function into context. In addition, the new financial reporting requirements set forth by IFRS 17 and the involvement of the actuary in finance is described.