Description: This editorial notes how change is constant in the world around us and that the SOA has adopted a theme of change. Articles in this issue of The Actuary, which are all related to change, are summarized.

Description: Dr. Winfried Heinen joined Gen Re in 1988. Having serviced Gen Re’s Latin American Life/Health business from the Cologne office for three years, he was transferred to Mexico City as regional manager for Latin America.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 1998, Issue No. 16.

Description: Full version of International Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 18.

Description: In this interview, Caroline Grégoire, formerly from Hannover Re, and now international mentor, coach, trainer and speaker, shares her views on how mentoring can support you on your career path and how it also benefits the reinsurance industry as a whole.

Description: This is an editorial article on risk management books.

Description: Full version of International Section News, September 2000, Issue No. 23.

Description: The science of behavioral economics explains shifts in social actions and behaviors. Behavioral economics studies how people actually behave in given circumstances—not what they did in the past or say they might do in the future, but how they are likely to behave now. It examines rational and irrational thought as well as unconscious motivations to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of consumer behavior. Could the insurance industry utilize behavioral economics as a way to potentially increase consumer desire to buy life insurance?

Description: Why have traditional reinsurers not been materially changed or challenged by the new risk transfer techniques that are backed by venture capital or private equity funds? Is there really an impregnable moat that protects our industry from change?

Description: Article describes the concept of Rational Ignorance and suggests that recognizing this issue in the life insurance industry might assist in reducing the Protection Gap.