Description: Appendices to the 2006 Report of the SOA International Experience Survey Working Group.

Description: For firms currently operating or desiring to operate internationally, it is important to be able to speak the financial language of the countries they are investigating. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 17PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: The Editor provides an overview of the articles in this issue. From International News, August 2011.

Description: The first preliminary results on international experience studies on mortality and persistency for the pilot countries of Taiwan, Mexico and South Korea are discussed and future expansion of the studies are explained.

Description: Summarization of address at the SOA annual meeting, October 1979, by William W. Whitson, Ph.D., of the Congressional Research Service. He conducted a study on the prospects of socio-political change, and concluded there could be some disturbing discontinuities.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This study adapts the idea of regular discount sequence in the bandit problem, and uses it to interpret life expectancy, as well as to develop a model for survival probabilities. Data came from multiple countries.

Description: "Living to 100 in the time of COVID-19: A Study of Late –Life Mortality Trajectories, Leonid A. Gavrilov, Ph.D., Natalia S. Gavrilova, Ph.D., Academic Research Centers, NORC at the University of Chicago Swedish Mortality Does Not Decelerate in Recent Cohorts, or Does it? – Roland Rau, Ph. D., Professor, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany; Marcus Ebeling, Ph.D., Karin Modig, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Anders Ahlbom, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden; Kai Kaufhold, Aktuar DAV, Ad Res Advanced Reinsurance Services GmbH, Cologne, Germany; Annika Ziegler, Lukas Stake, Hochschule Koblenz & Ad Res, Germany"

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: Retirement market study of Mexico in English

Description: The author discusses international opportunities for actuaries, both paid and unpaid, in addition to activities of the Section Council's current activities. From International News, August 2011.