Archive of 2013

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Heading to Macau: SOA Annual Symposium Offers Professional Development in Asia

The Society of Actuaries continues to broaden its international professional development programs with the SOA Annual Symposium, Outlook in Asia: Actuarial Trends & Solutions, 24-25 June 2013 in

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New SOA Learning Network helps candidates build a study group and members share expertise

Leslie Fausher, SOA e-Learning Manager, explains that if you are studying for courses in SOA’s e-Learning system you don’t have to go it alone anymore. SOA’s new online Social Learning

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Investment Section: Expanding benefits to meet member needs

New and existing SOA Investment Section members can now enjoy a new benefit—access to a huge variety of investment knowledge via the EBSCO Business Source Corporate Plus (BSC+) database. As invest

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10Apr2013
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SOA Blog
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General, Inside the SOA
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SOA 2012 Year in Review Report Now Available Online

We are pleased to introduce the Society of Actuaries (SOA) 2012 Year in Review Report.  This publication, available online at SOA.org, highlights the major initiatives and accomplishments of the SOA

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Retirement Income Industry Association Announces Winners of the 2013 Practitioner Thought Leadership Award

The Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA) recently named Anna Rappaport the winner of its 2013 Practitioner Thought Leadership Award for her paper, “Insights to Support Better Retirement Pla

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25Mar2013
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Anne Button
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Inside the SOA
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SOA 2013 nominations—are you interested in impacting the future of our profession?

It’s the official start of the elections season once again and the SOA Nominating Committee is seeking nominations for the 2013-2014 Board of Directors. What is the ideal candidate? As chair of the

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Where Is Our Nate Silver?

In case you missed the 2012 presidential election in the United States, one election guru, Nate Silver, batted nearly 1.000 in predicting the state-by-state presidential results and just missed pr

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22Feb2013
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SOA Blog
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Healthcare
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Keep up with Health Care Reform—Provider Payment Reform Seminar

There is substantive activity on payment and system reform across the health care landscape. This includes major initiatives like Accountable Care Organizations and Patient Centered Medical Homes, wit

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2013 Investment Symposium – if you are impacted by investment risk, this is your meeting!

By Tracy Labonte and Ed Martin, 2013 Investment Symposium Co-Chairs The state of the economy has always impacted actuaries and their work, but that has never been more true than today. Low interest

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ASNA 2013 – Looking Back and Moving Forward

By Kedar Mhapsekar Candidate, Master of Science in Statistics--Financial Modelling University of Western Ontario At the start of every year, university students and young professionals acro

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