Description: The authors explain a grassroots model for health-risk pooling that is being used in India. They explain why traditional health insurance models have not worked in this context.

Description: Opportunities and Challenges in the Korean Insurance Market by Chi Hong An from International Section News, February 2004, Issue No. 32.

Description: This article contains a synopsis of the author's presentation at the 2011 Living to 100 symposium. The presentation discusses the aging of the population in India and its effect on the Indian economy.

Description: A discussion of the political, economic, and demographic environment in Europe and its impact on the life insurance industry.

Description: Summary of the Insurance Market Behavior and Health Insurance Seminar Held in Beijing. The purpose of the seminar was to introduce the special characteristics of health insurance markets and health insurance to actuaries and insurance executives in countries where health insurance products are in their formative stages.

Description: In the United States today, there is much talk about the effect of the “baby boomer” generation ranging from the effect on our Social Security system, the increased market for healthcare products, as well as the effect that their withdrawals will have on the stock market. Yet overseas, there is a revolutionary change taking place that is much more fundamental than simply an aging population. As this article is being published, there are numerous countries that are seeing the first generation of their population retire with an explicitly described and funded social security benefit for each of those individuals.

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: January issue of International News

Description: Seminars in Asia Mark a First by Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao from International Section News, September 1998, Issue No. 17.

Description: The regulatory environment for financial reporting for insurance companies is discussed. The Appointed Actuary concept will take effect at the end of 2003. US GAAP or IASB standards of reporting are being reviewed.