Description: Article describing Actuaries Without Borders helping to organize an actuarial workshop in Vietnam.

Description: This paper discusses approaches for reporting pre-need plans in the Phillipines under the generally accepted accounting principles of the United States “U.S. GAAP. In particular, a focus is on contracts accounted for under SFAS 97 investment-oriented contracts.

Description: Describes the risk-based capital measure adopted in Switzerland.

Description: The author describes a course he and his colleague designed and taught at Columbia University called "A Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market."

Description: Insight into activities of Actuaries Without Borders (AWB), a section of the International Actuarial Association, and SOA involvement in the section. AWB’s mandate is to provide volunteers for projects in countries where the actuarial profession is at an early level of development.

Description: It is, without doubt, the poorest people in the world who are most in need of the security that insurance brings. Renata De Leers and Queenie Chow discuss why the micro-insurance market has low penetration, and why actuaries are so well placed to assist insurers in understanding their clients' needs.

Description: Insurers in the European Union 'EU' were busy preparing themselves for the new Solvency II regulations when the European Court of Justice surprised the industry with its judgment on March 1, 2011, to end gender discrimination in insurance aimed at supporting the fight against unfair discrimination. This article provides background, industry reaction, and the possible effects on the life insurance industry.

Description: New Society of Actuaries Professional Development Requirement for Candidates Working toward Fellowship in 2000

Description: Part I of a four-part series on insurance product regulations around the world. Provides a good high-level summary of the regulations as of 2002.

Description: Discusses the fourth Colloquium organised by the Pensions, Benefits and Social Security Section of the International Actuarial Association 'IAA'. The future of pension regulation and the key lessons to be learned from the financial crisis were covered at the event.