Description: The financial sector should provide financial security and allocate capital well. As its preeminent professionals actuaries have particular responsibilities.

Description: The authors reflect on the 2023 SOA ImpACT Conference. They share some of the networking opportunities, and give overviews of the general sessions as well as some of the breakout sessions. They discuss reasons for attending an in-person meeting beyond getting continuing professional development credits.

Description: Notes on the IAA meeting that took place in D.C. in May

Description: Part 3 of a 3 part series on Strategic Planning Issues. This document contains material from a speech given on June 17, 1997, in Singapore by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved management hiring someone to make changes, then ignoring all suggestions.

Description: AHIP commissioned the Menges Group to write this white paper on key pressures in the budgetary environment that stress the actuarial soundness of Medicaid rates. Though written by non-actuaries, this white paper thoroughly describes key professionalism topics that face Medicaid actuaries in their daily work.

Description: The 2016 Professionalism Ready-to-Go Kit is designed so that an experienced facilitator can use the materials to lead a session on professionalism. It is intended for actuaries at all levels of actuarial experience. The program is portable so it can be delivered anywhere (on the road). This Ready-to-Go Kit uses a case study to illustrate professionalism scenarios and to promote small and large group discussions.

Description: An article on a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving the updating of assumptions which resulted in a change in EGPs and DAC amortization.