Keeping up to date on the recent policy changes for the Affordable Care Act can be challenging. Listen to Part 12 of the series as Kristi Bohn unpacks Association Health Plans, Short term health plans, small group happenings and the value of volunteering. 

Barbara Zvan, FSA, FCIA, CERA is Chief Risk & Strategy Officer at Ontario Teachers'​ Pension Plan.

The Investment Section of the Society of Actuaries is creating a podcast series - How I Became an Investment Actuary.  In each podcast, we will interview a prominent investment actuary.  We hope to provide a series of interest to actuaries wanting to use their actuarial skills in the world of investments.  In this installment, Barbara discusses how she came to be in her current role and how her actuarial skills contribute.

Host Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA, interviews Steve Kopp, FSA, FCIA, a longtime lecturer of actuarial science and statistics.

Keeping up to date on the recent policy changes for the Affordable Care Act can be challenging. Listen to Part 1 of the series as Kristi Bohn unpacks CSRs, Section 1332 Waivers and recent case law.

An informative interview on the Actuaries Without Borders Global Mentorship Program. Michael Mendel, manager of the program, John Robinson, a mentor for the program, and Lynette Tasaranarwo, a mentee with the program are interviewed by Actuary of the Future Section Council Interns Paul Birch and Mitch Tamashunas. 

Continuing a series of episodes on the R programming language, Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA and Shea Parkes, FSA, MAAA lead off with some discussion about functions and move into the concept of libraries, which are central to maximizing the potential of R.

Douglas Fiddler and Robert Wylie, the authors of one of the 4 winning papers in the SOA Retirement 20/20 Call for Models contest discuss their paper - "The South Dakota Retirement System Generational Benefit Structure."

From the October 2018 Taxing Times: This edition of “In the Beginning” provides opens the door on qualified annuities and the tax rules that apply to them. Written by Michael L. Hadley.  Read by Dan Theodore.

Anders and Shea go in-depth with some core concepts about the way R works, including vectors, functions, lists, factors and method dispatch. A solid understanding of the inner workings of the language will lead to more efficient coding and less time debugging via Google search.

This joint podcast between the Reinsurance and Marketing & Distribution Sections features an interview with Blake Hill, FSA, FCIA.