Description: Argues that the financial and statistical data on loan restructuring practices collected within the last two years, since the 2008 collapse of the housing market, could be evaluated by actuaries and become a base for improving the existing models and developing new ones.

Description: This paper considers the problem of actuaries acting as advisers to individuals. This activity is covered by regulations, discussed in the paper, that currently recognize other professions but not actuaries. The paper recommends that actuarial organizations lobby the relevant legislative and regulatory bodies to provide actuaries pursuing an investment-focused career path with the same exemption status as other professionals.

Description: Lessons learned over the past ten years of being an ex-patriat.

Description: Industry experts say the need for actuarial skills is growing as emerging markets across the world become more sophisticated. CAA Global aims to meet that need and offers a route to an internationally recognized qualification for those who don’t want to follow the traditional actuarial qualification pathway. The Certified Actuarial Analyst (CAA) qualification is a standalone qualification supported by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA), two of the largest actuarial education bodies in the world.

Description: Article The Actuary Revealed by Dinney in The Actuary, May 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: Summary of recent SOA-sponsored research on Enterprise Risk Management practices as applied to health insurers, self-insured plans, and health finance professionals.

Description: The August/September 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: As part of the 2019 Disruptions to the Actuarial Profession Contest, this essay posits that the actuarial profession should respond to other fields encroaching on its space, particularly software development and data science, not by a defensive reaction to establish a boundary between fields but instead by a welcoming attitude that seeks to utilize expertise from other fields while maintaining the actuarial role of comprehensive risk management and its hard-earned professional trust.

Description: This is a paper on how to become the go-to person or in other words, the person that stands out from the competition and gets better assignments through writing articles which show your ability to think strategically about client issues.

Description: This article looks at critical points in my life, offers a very brief bio, and then explains how I used the experiences to learn decade by decade. It is motivated by wanting to tell the story of how able I am to contribute to the SOA and other activities at the age of 85. It is motivated by offering this story as a way to motivate others.