By Eric P. Harding
Astute readers (are there any others for Contingencies?) will recall January/February’s Inside Track, “A Magazine for the Whole Profession,” in which my New Year’s resolution was to make your magazine feature more diverse voices for an increasingly diverse actuarial profession—with more voices that aim to represent the profession as a whole, both as it exists now and as we hope it will exist in the future.

By Maryellen Coggins
Readers of my first two columns will notice that I’ve been focusing this year on a spirit of renewal—where I live, this has bloomed from an unusually cool spring to warmer weather heading toward summer.

By Albert J. Beer
No, this article does not describe how Actuarial Standards of Practice are handed down from Mount Olympus, nor how the Actuarial Board of Counseling and Discipline (ABCD) adjudicated the famous Sisyphus complaint!

By Mark Shemtob
Fans of the 1960s rock band Jay and the Americans might initially think that this article is about Mexico and a love story gone bad.

By Warren Manners

By Tom Toce
The hop entries go around the circle sequentially, starting in circle 1.

By Stephen Meskin
It is mid-March as I sit composing this column. All these problems have a connection, possibly tenuous, to March.

By Bob Reitz
Springtime in Asheville is subtle. There’s no accumulated snow to melt and temperatures have been in the 60s for weeks.