Description: This article outlines and summarizes research from Swiss Re about the prevalence of the Health Protection Gap throughout Asia, with a particular focus on China. Authors Robert Burr and David Zhang share key statistics on the scope of the gap, which is more than 800Bn USD in China alone, and discuss the role that technology and private-public partnership can play in reducing this gap over time. Readers will come away with an understanding of the scale of the problem within the Asia region as well as new ideas on how to solve similar problems within their own region.

Description: Life reinsurance activity in Bermuda has experienced rapid growth in recent years. This article explores the key drivers of this growth.

Description: The Lee and Carter LC method is getting widely adopted for long-run forecasts of age specific mortality rates. That popularity is first due to the model simplicity. Moreover, the LC model has given successful results for various countries e.g. U.S., Chile, G7 countries. However, some difficulties arose when using population data from certain countries such as UK and Australia. In the present paper, the LC model is applied to data from four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Singular Value Decomposition SVD, the Weighted Least Square WLS and the Maximum Likelihood estimate MLE are used. These approaches give satisfactory results. The appropriate fitting period needs, however, to be well chosen. The properties of the model's parameters are studied using a bootstrap simulation.

Description: Insight into National Strategic Plan for the Insurance Industry in Argentina (PlaNes 2012-2020), with details of a meeting in May 2012 that provided an excellent platform for the actuarial community to voice their perspective.

Description: This essay examines several key factors that have contributed to China’s success in the economic reform spanning the past three decades and the double-edged nature of these factors going forward.

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

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

Description: A discussion of the theoretically correct approach to the valuation of cross-border insurance ventures

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

Description: In this Get REAL workshop, you will work through sticky situations and discuss how to handle them, hear what the conversations sound like, be able to identify the stories you're creating and know what to do if you are the lone wolf on the topic.