Description: Discover a comparison of U.S. and international mandated leave programs which mandate employers to provide a minimum level of benefits to employees for qualifying leaves of absence, such as parental leave or medical leave.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting presents and overview of financial reporting concepts and issues in the U.K., Spain, and the Far East.

Description: Discussion of inflation: Causes and impacts and what the roles of actuaries might be to manage it.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses real estate investments, mortgages and equities. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: The external actuary must balance the goals of the company with a realistic assessment of the chances of achieving them, uncovering hidden value while scaling back on aggressive targets to achieve a balanced, defensible end product with buy-in from the seller's team. From Actuarial Considerations in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions, M-FI03-1.

Description: Article is about actuarial summer school in Switzerland on Financing of Retirement Benefits.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents different governmental approaches to providing financial security and health benefits for retirees, the problems associated with aging populations and the reduction in resources available to meet their needs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion reports the progress the International Forum of Actuarial Associations made during its year and a discussion of plans for the coming year.

Description: Through a review of legislative and policy provisions, this paper highlights national differences in retirement policy and identifies alternative retirement policy strategies. The countries studied are France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. In addition to the traditional tools of retirement policy, normal, deferred and early retirement, other areas of policy with a potential impact on retirement are studied. Data on retirement experience also are presented and discussed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1993, Vol. 45.

Description: The author supports the idea of developing a standard world wide definition of an actuary because the profession is not well known outside of the U.S. and U.K.