By Annmarie Geddes Baribeau Two years of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic is leaving its imprint on life insurance It has
May/June 2022
By Colby Schaeffer
It has now been three calendar years that we have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot has changed and will continue to change once society and every industry, especially health care, gets through the back end of it.
May/June 2022
By the Academy’s Committee on Professional Responsibility
This feature is intended to help actuaries think proactively about professionalism and how to explain its importance to the work they do and the stakeholders they serve.
By Eric Klieber
Created in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Social Security (officially the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance System) was initially motivated primarily by a desire to provide economic relief for those deemed unable to work due to old age and thus unable to benefit from the new Unemployment Insurance program or from New Deal programs providing jobs for the unemployed, such as the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.
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.
May/June 2022
By Albert J. Beer
Based upon issues that the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline have regularly encountered, this article highlights three “myths” that are commonly (and erroneously!) associated with actuarial professionalism.
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 Tom Toce
The hop entries go around the circle sequentially, starting in circle 1.
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