By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
When a new technology or innovation emerges, it challenges the laws and regulations that are currently in vogue.
January/February 2025
Features
By Bill Michalisin
AS WE BEGIN A NEW YEAR AND CELEBRATE OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, the American Academy of Actuaries remains steadfast in its mission: serving the public and the U.S. actuarial profession by advancing the importance of professionalism and informing public policy through independent and objective research, analysis, and insights. As CEO, I am privileged to lead an organization that not only supports its members but also contributes to the broader public good.
The Academy’s vice presidents outline their councils’ priorities for 2025.
By Ted Gotsch
The 2024 election results bring anticipated shifts in policy and political direction, leaving many pundits and the average American asking “what happens next?” But what does it say about the issues the Academy cares about the most, such as healthcare, retirement security, climate change, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and others?
Contingencies asked the various affinity groups representing the diversity of U.S. actuaries and their allies to tell us a little about what they had planned for 2025 and encourage all Academy members to get involved in these great organizations. Here are their responses.
By Patrick Getzen, FSA, MAAA, Dave Nelson, Karen Johnston, MD
Healthcare costs are a mystery to most people and organizations.
Departments
AS THE CALENDAR REMORSELESSLY EDGES TOWARD THE EVENING OF DECEMBER 31 each year, many people take it as an opportunity to take stock of what has happened in the previous year and look forward to what they would like to happen in the next 12 months.
By Darrell Knapp
WHEN I BECAME THE ACADEMY’S 60TH PRESIDENT in November—in my 40th year as an Academy member—I was reflecting on the value of being an Academy member and an Academy volunteer (27 years and counting).
By Tammy Dixon
CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE COMFORT FOODS.
By Robert Rietz
I told him we lived in downtown Asheville, which didn’t bear the brunt of the Sept. 28 storm, and our condo building escaped without any damage.
By Warren Manners
By Tom Toce
Entries start at square one and proceed to one hundred.
By Stephen Meskin
The puzzle column in this magazine almost eight years ago: Vol 29 No 3 (2017, May–June), was about tiling 4×4 squares with tetrominoes.
By Robert J. Reitz
I’m old. I bear no ill will toward anyone who closed the back cover after reading that.