Description: This is the editor letter for this issue. It summarizes the contents of the articles in the newsletter and the theme of the issue.

Description: The core of actuarial work involves assessing the present value of future liabilities. This requires us to make assumptions about the future. The future is inherently uncertain. Communicating that uncertainty to others is a major challenge for actuaries.

Description: This is the presidential address by former SOA president, William A. Halvorson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: The 2016 Transition Rules for ASA Candidates provides the transition credit candidates will receive if they have completed a current requirement by July 1, 2018. Candidates who have completed requirements under previous systems have them first moved to the current system using previous transition rules and then moved to the new system.

Description: What are the keys to creating the sort of actuarial career that leads to senior leadership roles? Is it to put more and more work into your technical skills, or to develop the 'soft skills' that make you standout among other actuaries? Learn one of the keys to self-marketing in a natural way, so you can make sure that opportunities find you.

Description: A typical course has some "hard" parts. These "hard" parts are the places where weaker students begin to fail, lose interest, and give up. The paper introduces a metric by which to evaluate each course topic. High metric values indicate "hard parts" of courses. The paper recommends spending more course time on hard parts and less course time on easy parts. The paper also recommends using disclosure: Tell students - this part of the course is "hard" and they may feel uncomfortable which is why more time is being spent on it." This approach to hard parts works! Failure rates are significantly reduced, while retention, satisfaction, and student scores improve.

Description: The April 2016 Issue of The Modeling Platform

Description: The Stepping Stone issue 60, November 2015

Description: Discusses creativity research author, a psychologist, conducted on actuaries. Also discusses implications for managers of actuaries.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.