Description: In this article, the author invites the readers to write in to suggest what corporate management or personal development message is implied in this article. The author uses Little League Baseball as an analogy for the corporate actuarial world.

Description: Considerations in the assessment of when to leave a job include mentorship, fit to company environment and culture, and timing.

Description: This article describes a hypothetical workplace dilemma, then invites SOA members to submit their comments and solutions. This situation deals with a mortality study and what disclosures should be made in the report on the study with regard to the treatment of reinsurance.

Description: Decision making is a life skill. You make decisions every day. Are you making good decisions? Do you know how to evaluate whether or not a decision was a good one? This article discusses some decision making methods.

Description: Article about workplace etiquette and the behaviors that irritate or impress co-workers or superiors.

Description: July 2010 issue of the Management and Personal Development Section newsletter The Stepping Stone

Description: Managing in the 21st century.

Description: The author identifies various career limiting moves, such as arrogance or insensitivity, that we may not even be aware we are doing. He encourages identifying these bad habits and correcting them.

Description: This literature guide concentrates on references that relate to U.S. annuities. Only a few sources pertain to Canadian annuities. Although similarities exist in product design between U.S. and Canadian annuities, regulation and taxation are different. This guide also focuses primarily on areas that are specific to the subject of annuities and touches upon related issues such as investments and pensions more lightly.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session discussed the considerations in performing due diligence on a reinsurance partner and the impact of deteriorating credit quality. Topics included: 1. Letters of credit 2. Arbitration and disputes. 3. Impact of mergers and acquisitions. 4. Offshore reinsurance. 5. NAIC issues.