Description: The SOA president honors those who have helped him achieve his professional goals, and offers ideas on ways to help others grow and thrive within the profession.

Description: This is an article about the many benefits of actively volunteering and the importance of investing one's time to grow the actuarial profession.

Description: In this article the author emphasizes, 'It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it.' He gives examples of why volunteerism, changes to the Society of Actuaries examination program, continuing professional development initiatives, etc. builds better actuaries in order to continually enhance the pre-eminence of our profession.

Description: Interview with John Houston, Advanced Analytics and Predictive Modeling practice leader at Deloitte.

Description: This is an article by outgoing Society of Actuaries President, Bruce D. Schobel, reflecting on the Society's accomplishments over the past year and looking ahead at its future plans.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Continuing Professional Development 'CPD' Requirement closed its first cycle on Dec. 31, 2010. As of that date, all members were required to attest compliance with the Requirement. The SOA also completed its first audit of compliance with the requirement. This article summarizes how members are meeting the SOA CPD Requirement. It also discusses some of the audit findings and provides 'tips for attesting' for SOA members living in Canada.

Description: In this article, the outgoing Society of Actuaries President, Donald J. Segal, reviews what he learned in the past year about the SOA and the actuarial profession.

Description: One person's tips on how actuaries can be successful at selling their actuarial services.

Description: One of two articles in this issue about actuaries serving as expert witnesses.

Description: This is an interview with Ken Guthrie, the Society of Actuaries Senior Director of Education, regarding the new structure of the Education Department.