Description: The International Accounting Standards Committee’s IASC mandate to produce internationally recognized standards for employee benefits gave the International Forum of Actuarial Organizations IFAA an early opportunity to show its importance in representing actuarial interests internationally.

Description: James Toole reviews Mike Cowell's book, Cyberbug. The story follows an imaginary actuary and his family into the 21st century and tells how the dramatic changes around them alter their lives.

Description: This graph indicates the overall historical trend in life expectancy by gender at birth.

Description: Shows the average historical and estimated annual mortality improvement by age grouping for the three countries, both in terms of long averages and the ultimate level assumed.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 8 is a review of report prepared by Frank M. Kleiler for the United States Department of Labor on the European regulation of public and private pension plans.

Description: This article describes the impact of the global acceptance of the SOA’s Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst credential.

Description: This article discusses international proposals for accounting reform that would establish a global common measurement approach for the large majority of life insurance and annuity products.

Description: The Australian author finds a number of very interesting differences in the way in which the industry conducts its affairs and in the supervisory arrangements as between U.S.A. and Australia.

Description: This article contains a brief history of founding the association of actuaries in 1899 to the present day and also highlights the scope of actuarial activities and training of German actuaries.

Description: This article is a continuance of a series on Canadian federal government statistical agencies. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 4