Description: Description of an ERM workshop delivered in Nigeria by Actuaries Without Borders in collaboration with the College of Insurance and Financial Management.

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: Part 3 of a 3 part series on Strategic Planning Issues. This document contains material from a speech given on June 17, 1997, in Singapore by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference.

Description: A discussion of recent experiences of actuarial volunteers visiting Egypt

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: A discussion of the experiences of an actuarial volunteer consulting and training in Samara, Russia

Description: Society of Actuaries' Hong Kong Ambassador’s Report, discussing the primary objectives of the 1998 activities launched in China

Description: A discussion of the Asia Committee whose purposes are 1 To represent the SOA in promoting actuarial education, 2 To provide services to members in the development of educational programs, research and other support and 3 To build the image and awareness of the profession in Asia

Description: Observations on a Trip to China June 20 to July 5, 1997 by Harold G. Ingraham, Jr. from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15. Includes comments by local Chinese actuaries Yu Luo, Chengfeng Shen, Hongjian Bao, and Yunyu Zheng.

Description: Article dealing with the SOA Board of Governors approval of the creation of a China Region Development Fund and a Southeast Asia Development Fund