Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting covers professionalism and ethics for the actuary. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers the paramount importance of professionalism and also provides a cautionary tale about its disappearance from corporate life. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 110gs.

Description: Discusses a speech by Ernest Moorhead on September 22. The speaker defines consumerism as Intelligent Choice and advocates providing the customer with clear-cut information about the products they are being offered. He also discusses the actuarial role in this.

Description: Arthur Pedoe Obituary: Summary of many essays Mr. Pedoe published on a variety of topics dealing with the actuarial profession

Description: Resources to help actuaries advance their careers.

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 a dilemma involving an ASA who decided to stop taking exams, and communication difficulties with the Chief Actuary.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This case study involved an actuary who felt he had been lied to during the interview, but only found out after he moved his family and started the job. What should he do?

Description: A review of Mihir Desai's book The Wisdom of Finance, and why actuaries specifically should read this book.

Description: Statement about the peer-review process for the newsletter, and a disclaimer about responsibility for tax advice.

Description: Article provides a rigorous assessment of statements used in the sale of disability insurance, correcting such statements, and outlining what is believed to be the rationale for the statements pointing out where the errors occur.