Description: Chronicles the journey made by Allstate to enhance its process for managing risk and ultimately find ways to better exploit risk opportunities.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: The Society's vision is for actuaries to be recognized as the leading professionals in the modeling and management of financial risk and contingent events. To that end, this column will regularly update members on the latest initiatives underway aimed at helping us realize this vision.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the archived education catalog for fall 2008.

Description: This is the archived fall 2008 basic education catalog.

Description: Part 2 of two-part series of interviews with former SmallCo section chairs exploring their experience with the section, the future of SmallCo, and final thoughts.

Description: How to effectively retain top talent is a challenge that all employers face and an area in which employee benefits have been playing an increasingly important role. Traditionally, the market has been very competitive, with generic products mainly focused on outpatient and inpatient medical reimbursement, Term Life cover and accidental benefits. For large multinationals, employee benefits are often tailor-made solutions arranged via international brokers whereas small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to utilize standard packages offered by insurance companies via agents. This article explores the evolution of employee benefits in Asia.

Description: This article is an interview with Laura Bennett, FSA, CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance. Her company provides one–of–a–kind pet insurance. The Actuary recently asked Bennett some questions about her unusual use of actuarial training.

Description: Article presents five steps to consider when thinking of selling your practice.