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  • Working Abroad: Are There Differences in Codes of Professional Conduct and Standards of Practice?
    Bulgaria, not knowing what the situation was. My primary focus was teaching actuarial methods to the company ... an informal correspondent-type basis or through direct financial ties, whether it be joint ventures or ...

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    • Authors: Ralph B Kopp, Francesco De Gobbi, Lauren M Bloom, Charles Barry H. Watson
    • Date: Apr 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Global Perspectives
  • The Impact of AIDS in North America, Europe and Africa
    term insurance. AIDS questions have been added to direct mail proposals during the past two years. In general ... companies experimented with DBS but dropped it, The primary problem cited was sometimes not getting enough ...

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    • Authors: David Holland, Harry H Panjer, Thomas W Reese, Andre Chuffart
    • Date: Oct 1990
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Demography>Population data; Global Perspectives; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance
  • Demutualization in an International Context
    acquisition market without stock. One of the primary considerations for demutualization is to issue ... Richard Branson's Virgin group in the U.K. doing direct selling of financial products. Internationally ...

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    • Authors: Sue Collins, Stephen Paul Taylor-Gooby, Fred Rowley
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Global Perspectives
  • International Business Techniques
    societies (savings and loans), or building their own direct marketing force. This is just the opposite of what's ... disability product. Another one is a type of long-term care product which is quite interesting. They pay their ...

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    • Authors: William J Bugg, Linda B Emory, Alan Lockie, Joseph Dunn
    • Date: Oct 1990
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives
  • Value-Added Accounting in an International Context
    summarize by saying that if you proceed with a little care and caution, the complications which arise in the ... officer is fully accountable for results. The primary responsibility of management in the head office ...

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    • Authors: Stephen Conwill, Stephen Paul Taylor-Gooby, Graham Clay
    • Date: Oct 1990
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Global Perspectives
  • The Media, Business and Global Financial Services
    the economy. But, the other point is that health care costs, which once led the rate of inflation up, ... give part of the credit for that drop in health care prices to fears of what is coming, and that the ...

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    • Authors: Myron Kandel
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives
  • The Actuary's Developing Role in Regulating Insurance Worldwide
    professional responsibility. Finally, there is a direct responsibility, or hotline of some type, to the ... practice, such as the beard being required to give direct access to the appointed actuary and to receive ...

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    • Authors: Camilo Salazar, Christopher David Daykin
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Global Perspectives; Public Policy
  • Longevity Improvement in Canada, the United States and Worldwide
    effect for the institution of the national health care in the late 1940s. We do have something going on ... similar. The Japanese instituted public health care in their provinces in about 1875. Their mortality ...

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    • Authors: Louis Adam, Richard MacMinn
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Demography>Longevity; Global Perspectives
  • Accounting Standards for Pension and Employee Benefits Around the World
    yearly basis, to adjust for inflation. This is in direct contradiction with the U.S. accounting principles ... benefits into the retirement zone. This has been a direct result of many of the problems with the local Medicare ...

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    • Authors: David Healy, Robert Heitzman, Gareth Richard Williams
    • Date: Oct 1993
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives; Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting; Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
  • Social Security Systems Around the World
    and regardless of the inconveniences of receiving care, services are available. Most people who are in ... cradle-to-grave mentality about "thestate taking care of the people and they didn't want to do away with ...

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    • Authors: Robert M Katz, Donald McIsaac, Fernando Troncoso, Christopher David Daykin, Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Charles Barry H. Watson
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Global Perspectives; Social Insurance>Social Security