Description: The purpose of this survey is to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data.

Description: Highlights of the International Experience Study (IES), a joint research venture of the SOA’s International Section and Research Department, the International Actuarial Association, local actuarial associations and corporate sponsors to provide actuaries around the world with practical experience information in emerging markets.

Description: In this article, the authors discuss the Experience Study Working Group surveys of published embedded value EV financial assumptions they have been conducting.

Description: This newsletter discloses the results of a survey of embedded value financial assumptions used by insurance companies. The purpose of this survey is to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data.

Description: Panelists [and members of the audience] debate whether earning a Master's in Business Administration [MBA] degree is more valuable than earning the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries [FSA] designation in terms of career-advancement opportunities in the financial-services industry. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 129 CS of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the basic techniques of market research and how they might be used by actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Starting in 2003, the Society of Actuaries International Experience Study Working Group has been conducting surveys of published embedded value financial assumptions. This article updates the survey with 2007 data.

Description: Update on the SOA International experience study. The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative.

Description: Actuary of the Future Section session recap covering market research.

Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.