Description: In this article, the author addresses the question: 'Can we define how actuaries add value in our professional capacity and the distinctive competencies we offer our stakeholders, and do so in an easily communicated manner?'

Description: Briefly discusses the Taiwan Actuarial Community as of September 2000.

Description: Discusses the issues papaer to be released by the International Accounting Standards for Insurance to cover accounting issues for insurance contracts as opposed to insurance companies.

Description: Highlights a visit made by the President of the Society of Actuaries to the Far East. Specifically, he shares his learnings about the actuarial profession in Shanghai, Bejjing, Hong Kong and Taipei, locations that contain more than 6 percent of the SOA membership.

Description: The U.K. Actuarial Profession—the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries—has recently been addressing what they should be doing for their international members.

Description: AG 49 pertains to illustrated life insurance products with a crediting rate tied to an index. The guideline discusses the maximum illustrated credited rate and format changes to illustrations.

Description: Post-Retirement Experiences of Individuals Retired for 15 Years or More

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Using case studies, representatives of various actuarial boards and committees discuss examples of how an actuary can run afoul of actuarial standards and what happens when he or she does.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session covered the goals of peer review programs, types of peer view, and practical issues such as the level of detail in peer review, what to peer review, types of documentation, and legal issues.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This discussion is about the work of the committees of the Society of Actuaries and American Academy of Actuaries in advancing the role of the valuation actuary: Current status of the valuation actuary movement, Standards of practice, Qualification requirements, The valuation actuary in Canada.