Description: IACA, and IAA Section has a key role to play at ICA, held only every 4 years. This feature gives you a flavour of IACA highlights in Berlin, June 2018.

Description: interview with Mr. Fauzi Arfan (FA), President of the Society of Actuaries of Indonesia or Persatuan Aktuaris Indonesia to enhance the understanding of the PAI.

Description: Provides an overview of India's insurance market and the important role of the actuary.

Description: In this article, the Editor talks about happenings in the International Section.

Description: Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series of three covering the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework. The subsequent articles will appear in future issues of the Actuary of the Future newsletter. The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework is a powerful tool to enable you to design your future. Though it has been the SOA’s instrument for prioritizing continuing education and support to members since 2010, many actuaries are still not fully aware what a potent tool it can be to them in planning their personal careers.

Description: In an earlier article in the February 2004 edition of International News, some topical issues and the background to the Australian actuarial profession were discussed. This article provides an update on the current “state of play.” Therefore, the focus is mostly on topical issues, as much of the background already provided remains relevant.

Description: Read the October 2020 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: In “Gearing up for Designing Your Future,” published in the May 2017 issue of Actuary of the Future, the author cited four heroes as his personal inspiration. This article is the successor, showing the glory of these heroes and how they can inspire us actuaries today, as we strive to live our best lives. Identifying your own Noble Purpose as an actuary and in your life makes creating a five-year plan for personal growth meaningful and motivating. What will you gain from reading biographies of famous people and the classics? To aspire, to approach eloquence, to emulate the poetry of how they put their ideas across to mobilize their publics, to elevate our own characters by their examples, to be fully equipped to make moral and ethical judgments, to master the primary tool, verbal communication.

Description: Historical Factors That Have Influenced the Life Insurance Market

Description: Notes on the IAA meeting that took place in D.C. in May