Professionalism Outreach, November 2016

Academy Immediate Past President Tom Wildsmith presented on “Developments in Actuarial Professionalism 2016” to more than 250 attendees of the annual meeting of the Actuarial Society of New York on Nov. 9 in New York City. He discussed the basic structures and key elements of U.S. actuarial professionalism, developments in actuarial professionalism, and tools and resources that are available to help actuaries keep up to date on professionalism. Also on Nov. 9, at a meeting of the Actuaries Club of Boston, Academy Secretary/Treasurer and Committee on Qualifications member Tom Campbell delivered a professionalism presentation with a focus on changing, or qualifying for emerging, practice areas as well as the Academy’s U.S. Qualification Standards Attestation Form. Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline member David Driscoll spoke at the Actuaries’ Club of Hartford & Springfield in Hartford, Conn., on Nov. 10, the same day that Academy General Counsel and Director of Professionalism Paul Kollmer-Dorsey provided a professionalism update at the Middle Atlantic Actuarial Club’s fall meeting outside of Baltimore.