Description: Article from International Section News, July 2006, No. 39 is an obituary on Yuan Chang who was the first person of Chinese descent to become a fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA).

Description: An actuary has twins...and uses regression analysis to estimate their fetal vital statistics.

Description: A report on the Panamerican Congress of Actuaries in Bogota, Colombia in the fall of 1999. This is a forum for actuaries from Latin America. The topic of the conference was Social Security Reform in Latin America

Description: Recent global financial crisis has brought risk management into sharp focus for financial services organizations around the world. In order to help the professionals working at insurance companies in China to exchange ideas and learn international practices on corporate governance and risk management of the insurance sector, the China Association of Actuaries initiated the International Seminar on Risk and Solvency Management. This article summarizes the presentations given at the seminar held in Beijing on March 27, 2009.

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: With large parts of Italy back in lockdown due to a second wave of COVID 19, the P&C insurance market is still waiting for potential legal actions to emerge from those seeking compensation for negligent conduct during this exceptional catastrophe.

Description: The Moroccan Association of Actuaries Launched its new website w3.ama.ma. It manifests a proactive strategy in promoting the actuarial profession in Morocco.

Description: Overview of developments leading to IFRS accounting standard IFRS 17.

Description: This article is an abstract of the Deloitte whitepaper “Financial KPIs in the New World” that will be published in January 2023. It provides a market view of how the new Financial KPIs will be integrated in the insurers’ decision-making process and about the main challenges and opportunities for insurers’ management and external stakeholders in the jurisdictions that have adopted IFRS17 and in particular countries in the EMEA region.

Description: New Frontiers in the Convergence of Financial Services by Andrew F. Giffin from International Section News, October 2001, Issue No. 26.