By Nate Worrell
In 2014, my wife had a serious health crash. She was stuck in bed battling gut pain, bloating, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
July/August 2019
Features
By Kurt J. Wrobel
“We need to make a data-driven decision.”
Departments
By Eric P. Harding
I recently took up golf. I’ve never been much for sports; my favorite part of T-ball was the trip to Dairy Queen afterward. But I decided to lean into the middle-age suburban stereotype, and I got a set of clubs for a recent birthday.
By Shawna Ackerman
One issue that has dominated discussions I have been involved in at the Academy and elsewhere this year is the U.S. actuarial profession’s relationship with professional associations outside the U.S.
By Srivathsan Karanai Margan
The problem with evil is that in real life, it is not necessarily ugly. It can look really beautiful. —Yuval Noah Harari
By Allan W. Ryan
What is a profession? The Oxford Dictionary defines the word in part as “a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.”
By Bradley J. Piper and Mary L. Gabe
Why maintaining a zero-dollar MA-PD premium plan is worth the effort
By Casey Cep, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Review by Daniel D. Skwire
By Warren Manners
By Tom Toce
I wasn’t sure it could be done, but here is the last in our rolling a seven series, six and one.
By Josh Feldman
I never was supposed to be an actuary. Instead, once it became clear I wasn’t going to be a pro surfer, it was quietly assumed that I would follow in my dad’s footsteps and be a physicist.
By Bob Rietz
Why aren’t there more women in the actuarial profession?