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2023
2022
December
- Letter from the Editor
- I Didn’t Take All of Those Actuarial Exams for Nothing
- Too Busy to Not Have Governance in Place
August
- Letter from the Editor
- Risk Evaluation in the Final Stages of the Pandemic
- We Don’t Refer to Years Now: It’s Pre-COVID or Post-COVID
- The Relation Between COVID-19 and Depression
2021
December
- RBC Updates
- PBR Considerations and Benefits for Smaller Insurance Companies
- Accounting Concepts in Finance
Reprinted from the March 2021 issue of Innovators & Entrepreneurs.
September
June
- Chairperson's Corner
- Fraternals to Founders to Foundational: The Legacy of Black Insurance Companies
- Several Ways to Improve Your Use of Excel for Actuarial Production
March
- In Good Times and Bad, We are Actuaries
- Assumption Governance and Setting Assumptions in Illustration Actuary Testing
- Several Reasons Excel Should Not Be Your Production-Level Actuarial System
2020
December
- Chairperson's Corner
- Critical Illness Benefits and Triggers: An Introduction
- Many Hands Make Light Work: Interviews With Former SmallCo Section Chairs, Part II
2019
Issue 52, December - View | Download
Issue 51, July 2019 - View | Download
2018
2017
2016
Issue 46, September
Issue 45, March
2015
Issue 44, September
Issue 43, March