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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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10Apr2013
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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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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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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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31Jan2013
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An Interview with Bill Chinery

 By Joseph De Dominicis, FSA, FCIA -- SOA Canadian Staff fellow “Fortune sides with him who dares”  -Virgil The trade-off implicit in the above quote is central to modern finance and i

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12Nov2012
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Year-End Update: The Canadian Membership Value Enhancement Initiative

En français   Time Flies! by Joseph De Dominicis, SOA Staff Fellow, Canadian Membership As I write this update on the Canadian Membership Value Enhancement Initiative (“the

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09Nov2012
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An interview with Cindy Forbes

by Joe De Dominicis, SOA staff fellow, Canadian membership   “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” - Robert Frost

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26Oct2012
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SOA International Offerings Continue to Grow: SOA Annual Symposium in Shanghai

The SOA has been increasingly focused on providing new, cutting-edge programs for our international members. As a part of that effort, we are very excited to present another professional development o

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