Description: Describes Standard Life's business model transformation.

Description: Chairperson's update on the International Section.

Description: A Report on the October 1999 International Actuaries Section seminar, held in San Francisco

Description: Brief discussion about the articles about actuarial issues from around the world in the current issue of the International News newsletter. Also noted is the research project on experience studies around the world.

Description: It is, without doubt, the poorest people in the world who are most in need of the security that insurance brings. Renata De Leers and Queenie Chow discuss why the micro-insurance market has low penetration, and why actuaries are so well placed to assist insurers in understanding their clients' needs.

Description: this article talks about the career opportunities for actuaries stemming from tapping into the insurance potential of that underserved segment.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Latin America Committee (LAC) hosted the first Professionalism webinar for the region on May 14. Two-hundred attendees from 10 different countries participated, and it is now available for download for those who may have missed it.

Description: Read the March 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: The Ecuadorian Actuarial Association (AEACT) was admitted, as a Full Member (FMA) of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) in October 2021. This constitutes a great achievement for a small country like Ecuador with 17 million inhabitants, a GDP of 100 billion U.S. dollars, and no more than 20 professional and registered actuaries. This important goal was a challenge both personally and for the team that worked hard to achieve it. I remember that it all began 28 years ago, when I attended as a guest to present a summary about the actuarial profession in our country at the World Congress of Actuaries that was held in Montreal, Canada. This congress was the opportunity to learn about the functions and activities of the associations of more developed countries with a significant number of actuaries and whose profession already had an acceptance in professional societies such as the Society of Actuaries in the United States, the Faculty of Actuaries of the United Kingdom, or the Institut des Actuaries of France.

Description: In this article, the outgoing chairperson recaps his year in office.