Description: Reflections on aging populations.

Description: With improved global mortality confirmed, the question becomes: What adjustments do actuaries need to make? This article answers that and other questions related to mortality improvements.

Description: This article is a summary of the World Bank Policy Research Report entitled Averting the Old-Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth. This report concludes that a mix of systems is more appropriate than single pillar systems. It recommends a publicly managed system with the limited goals of reducing poverty among the old, a privately managed mandatory savings system and voluntary savings.

Description: The author encourages actuaries to understand the needs for actuarial type work in all geographical areas of the world and look for ways to help.

Description: This article highlights the benefits of the globalization of the actuarial profession and discusses why actuaries should be interested in international topics.

Description: This article discusses a 1999 white paper, 'A Partnership between the Academic Community and the Actuarial Profession.' The ultimate goal was to create uniformity in education such that qualified actuaries would be recognized regardless of where they qualified. From: The Actuary, October 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 08.

Description: This article discusses actuarial support for an international accounting regime designed to meet the dual objectives of: • Generating a realistic view of operations focusing on expected future cash flows, reflecting the duty of management to add value for shareholders and to protect the interests of policyholders. • Demonstrating the adequacy of supporting capital to cover the risks associated with the business. From: The Actuary, January 2000, volume 34, issue 1.

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: This article discusses a paper entitled, “Looking at Canada in 1980.” The author of this article, editor of The Actuary, notes that the paper’s author, A. Peter Hardy, F.I.A., who had called upon his own experiences in Canada in 1976-79 to write it, provided a copy, excerpts from which are included in the discussion. Three of the areas Mr. Hardy addressed for comparison between Canada and UK practice are discussed in this article: taxation, guaranteed cash surrender values, and life insurance commission and the field force.

Description: This article gives an overview of the new SOA website and statistics on its usage plus looks at other actuarial sites, and describes the prevalent search engines.