Description: This article explores the challenges of financial reporting in the 21st century particularly on the international scene.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses strategic planning for an actuarial consulting firm or any other type of company with a focus on changing with the times and capturing new opportunities.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. Panelists discussed current issues in emerging markets, such as China Life's initial public offering and the impact of new international accounting standards.

Description: The first preliminary results on international experience studies on mortality and persistency for the pilot countries of Taiwan, Mexico and South Korea are discussed and future expansion of the studies are explained.

Description: Actuary of the Future Section session recap covering market research.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.

Description: This session discussion is about competitive strategies in mass marketing for both direct response and payroll deduction marketing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: In this article, the authors review the International Experience Study updates.

Description: This is an article discussing the update on the SOA international experience study which has expanded the topics being studied from individual life insurance mortality and persistency experience to also include agent retention and productivity.

Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.