Description: An invitation to attend and a call for papers for the Colloquium of the International Actuarial Association.

Description: The author discusses what influences the general insurance market.

Description: Emilie Bouchard introduces herself as Canadian Liaison for SOA.

Description: To explore the main drivers of the growing force of Chinese Life Insurance Industry.

Description: Editor's note for the September 2014 issue.

Description: This article provides a brief summary of the October 25-26, 2010 Institute of Actuaries of India's Seminar on Current Issues in Retirement Benefits held in Mumbai, India. The purpose of the seminar was to provide a general and technical update to all Indian professionals who are involved in the design, management, accounting and evaluation of employee benefit schemes.

Description: The paper begins by questioning the wisdom of making pension provision when negative real rates of return are on offer. It then explores an alternative means of securing your standard of living in retirement: repurchasing of goods and services. The pros and cons are considered. There are risks but they are different ones. The author is not sure that the world is ready for such an approach; not yet anyway. But if the financial sector becomes too bloated, who knows?

Description: recap of the mortality working group meeting.

Description: Editor's note for the September 2014 issue.

Description: There is an increasing need for pension provision in many Islamic countries. There are special challenges in developing Shariah-compliant pension frameworks.In this article, we identify these challenges and take the first steps in proposing how they may be overcome.