Description: This article describes the author's experience of teaching actuarial science in China at Nankai University.

Description: Discussion of the Buol Report, dealing with international solvency standards for life insurance companies

Description: The SOA has a growing number of research projects specifically addressing opportunities and insights for its membership in Asia.

Description: The SOA is committed to meeting member and candidate needs outside North America.

Description: This article discusses the three main taxation proposals affecting holders of life insurance and deferred annuity policies announced on Friday, November 13, 1981 by the Federal Finance Minister in Canada. The main proposals are 1 taxation of accrued investment income on life and annuity policies, 2 changes in the adjusted cost basis at disposition of policies and 3 treatment of life insurance policies not registered as retirement savings plans.

Description: Continuing a line which started in Vienna as far back as 1927, COINTRA an acronym for “Cooperation Internationale pour les Assurances des Risclues Aggraves” held its 14th conference in Stockholm from 9th to 12th June, 1981. Some 110 representatives from life assurance and reassurance companies, established in more than a dozen countries, were in attendance for the purpose of exchanging information and reviewing developments in substandard life assurance.

Description: This article gives an overview of how countries all over the world are addressing the issue social security financing and its rapidly growing costs.

Description: SOA participation in international meetings in India and Russia.

Description: Reflections on aging populations.

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.