Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents a discussion of actuarial qualification standards, standards of practice SOP, the Code of Professional Conduct and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline - ABCD. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21. No. 4b.

Description: Purpose of changing the exam syllabus

Description: This article talks about the Board of Governors' decision to not pursue accreditation of the F.S.A. designation with state insurance commissioners for purposes of rendering opinions on life insurance company reserves.

Description: Corner Study Note - Pension Plan Investment by Judy Anderson from Pension Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 39.

Description: Author provides personal study tips.

Description: Author asserts that actuaries are arguably better at analyzing and interpreting risk than any other professional. The exhaustive exams teach us how to manage risk, not eliminate it. If the profession is to continue to flourish, it will be vital to take this idea and apply it to one’s career too.

Description: This article describes the changes that the Institute of Actuaries of Australia have made to their education program, with a particular focus on the introduction of the subject 'actuarial control cycle'. This subject provides the student the the generalized actuarial approach necessary for tackling a range of commercial problems.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium A review of the process involved in making an actuarial opinion and in developing the related actuarial report to management. This was accomplished through a case study approach, specifically covering a universal life product.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session is about professional standards and the appointed actuary.

Description: Department article that describes how the SOA is extending its e-Learning system with a set of new social learning tools.