Description: A description of the issue's contents.

Description: This article is the third in the series 10 secrets to landing your dream job. The author elaborates on: using emails and letter as marketing weapons, building your network, and networking the right way.

Description: The author reviews what lucky people do and the seven steps you can take to being luckier that are scientifically proven ways to increase the odds of fortunate events occurring in your career and in your life.

Description: The author shares her thoughts on what she has learned from the ‘school of hard knocks', the best teacher of management skills.

Description: Summarizes reaction to the new IFRS on insurance contracts

Description: In this article the author discusses the risks involved with information technology, with respect to security, IT management, and business continuation plans.

Description: This review of Nancy Ancowitz’s book “Self Promotion for Introverts,” states that it reads “as though it were written with actuaries in mind.” The reviewer highlights how the book can help both the actuary promoting his own business and the actuary who is a member of a large organization.

Description: This article, an Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, is a discussion of the various issues relating to measurement of data in healthcare. The author presents “a light hearted & tongue-in-cheek take on how healthcare is typically measured, and an entrepreneurial vision for a better world.” Noting that typically data is summarized in deterministic models that produce point estimates for analysis and decision making, the author’s vision presented in the paper “is that of a central repository of actuarially modeled distributions that can either be used as benchmarks or adapted to an organization's experience.”