Description: Discussion of the Clearinghouse Scholarship Program, which matches low income candidates in developing countries where SOA exams are administered with potential corporate or individual sponsors.

Description: Recovery and Regulatory Changes in Indonesia by Richard Holloway from International Section News, September 2000, Issue No. 23.

Description: The article discusses what actuaries mean by "acting in the public interest." While the article is focused on the U.S. environment, it includes materials describing how other actuarial organizations are addressing this critical issue. The article concludes with observations that explaining to the public what the actuarial profession means by "acting in the public interest" is important for both the public and the members of the U.S. actuarial profession.

Description: This survey is an annual survey that captures individual and group life data from U.S. and Canadian life reinsurers.

Description: Discussion of what bank holding companies earned in insurance brokerage fee income in 2008.

Description: This session discussion is about outside actuarial profession's perspective on health care cost, insurer's role in medical care management, relationships between treatment decisions, available coverage, appropriate use of underwriting and paying for uncompensated care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: The decrease in interest rates over the last several years has led to decreases in the maximum valuation rate and maximum nonforfeiture interest rate, and companies need to prepare for these changes.

Description: Discusses the severe adverse effects on U.S. capital markets that will occur due to the passage of FAS 115, which requires marking certain assets to market without a corresponding adjustment to liabilities.

Description: This articles describes how actuaries can contribute to the understanding of the financing of Medicare and the urgency of its problems.

Description: discussion of the naming of Patrick l. Brokett, Ph.D., director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of Texas at Austin as the third holder of the Thomas P. Bowles Jr. Chair of Actuarial Science.