Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on the problems with the dominant social pension systems around the world and the potential solutions to the problems in providing retirement income security in the face of aging populations and diminishing resources. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual meeting is about global dynamic - definition, effect on the actuarial profession, actuaries and insurers response to it.

Description: Retirement benefits have become a seamless worldwide web. Thus actuaries who go to war in the international arena are painfully aware of the impact of U.S. technology on the battlefield. The debut of that awesome awful weapon, ERISA, and all its derivatives has persuaded many countries to adopt counterparts.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses defined benefit issues including flexible funding methods, plan design, ad hoc arrangements and formal funding objectives. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting is about the comparison of social security systems in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the relationship between social security and private pension plans, and the contrast of Canadian and European governmental medical insurance programs to the continuing controversy in the United States over government health insurance.

Description: The International Accounting Standards Committee’s IASC mandate to produce internationally recognized standards for employee benefits gave the International Forum of Actuarial Organizations IFAA an early opportunity to show its importance in representing actuarial interests internationally.

Description: This presentation discusses pension plans provided by U.S. multinational companies, and focuses on issues such as nondiscrimination rules, how the plan benefits compare to those of other countries, benefit indexing and what happens when an employee transfers to another country. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents different governmental approaches to providing financial security and health benefits for retirees, the problems associated with aging populations and the reduction in resources available to meet their needs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about identifying international opportunities, positioning yourself for those opportunities, determining skills needed, and comparing with skills you have.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews the codes of professional conduct and standards of practice and the professional obligations when practicing in various other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.