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From the Executive Editor

ASEA Monthly

Hello ASEA! 

It has been a fantastic summer, but I am trying to shift into ‘9/15 and 5500’ busy season before the avalanche hits.

For those who were lucky enough to go to the ASEA Symposium, I hope you had a fantastic time and learned a lot. It would seem so, as Angie Vadnais, Senior Consulting Actuary at Pension Benefits Unlimited, Inc. (and ASEA’s Executive Vice President) presents in her report on the Symposium, which you can find here. (Note: the Bias in Data credit is needed now!… I hope we can also get our credit at ASPPA Annual!)

Back a dozen years ago when I was at a crossroads in life (before ASEA helped change everything for me), volunteering seemed a way to lend perspective on things. Here is information from one of the projects I am a part of. The article is by Gary Stone (no relation), Senior Staff Attorney, Workers’ Rights and Benefits Unit, at Brooklyn Legal Services. You can find it here. (It brought great satisfaction to find mistakes by much larger actuarial groups and get a few hundred dollars or a couple thousand for poor folks, where the error needed to be uncovered by an outside actuary.)

Charles A. Brown, EA, FCA, MSEA, QPA, QKA, Consulting Associate Director, Legal & Regulatory U.S. at Wolters Kluwer has some very nice things to say about the EA-2L Exam Writers Committee Meeting. I will let his words speak for himself. That Charles is a genius, by the way! Originally met him and his dad (also an actuary) through the ASEA Google Group, and then in person. You can find Charles’ article here.

ASPPA and the American Retirement Association have scheduled their annual Business Meetings at this year’s ASPPA Annual Conference at the Gaylord National hotel in National Harbor, MD. You can learn more here.

Okay, ASEA—see you after the storm (of 5500s) at Annual! — Alan