Actuarial Update, September 2021
The September Actuarial Update covers the two bestselling authors who will give plenary-session addresses at the Academy’s Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum, which will be held Nov. 4–5 in Washington, D.C., as a hybrid event. They are Robert Costa—co-author of the current No. 1 bestseller Peril, who will speak at the opening plenary session for in-person attendees, and Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, who will keynote the professionalism plenary for both in-person and virtually connected attendees. Also in the issue, Bill Michalisin takes the helm as the Academy’s new executive director; the Magic School Bus book is again available for order; health and pension issue briefs address the federal government’s recently released trustees’ reports on Medicare and Social Security; the Academy presented its scalars research at the Virtual Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar and Workshops; and the “Professionalism Counts” column discusses the Applicability Guidelines.