Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: What The Markets Should Reflect From The Victory In Iraq - A Candian’s Perspective

Description: Doomsday risk factors explored.

Description: Review of Entering the Twenty-First Century, prepared by the Council on Environmental Quality and .the Department of State. A severe picture of the world at the turn of the century is presented.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the partisan politics in Taiwan, including its impact on the country's national health care system.

Description: In this address by Irving S. Friedman, the speaker reviews the immediate situation of inflation and offers his recommendations on what can be of help to the issue. Friedman additionally provides his own views on inflation and the long-term outlook in the United States and world economies. From Record of Society of Actuaries,Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This book explores diplomatic strategy in an historical context. Many of the lessons in the book are useful to business decision-makers.

Description: In this article the author concludes that “terrorism may foster a sense of conservatism that we may now need in the marketplace. Now that policy may have to be changed. In the process, risk will become better understood, common sense can replace, to some extent, the irrational behavior or excessive risk taking of the past and we will all appreciate our financial situation much more, and won’t expose ourselves to unrealistic expectations as much Hopefully the actuarial profession can respond to the challenge, since we are the best qualified to quantify such risks in the marketplace.”

Description: In the past, we have seen changes to regulations which have been perceived to negatively impact pensions. However, during the euro crisis, we have seen governments undertake austerity measures which dramatically reduce pension benefits in a way never seen before in Europe, at times even going as far as to confiscate pension assets in order to fill government coffers.