Description: This article explores how the SOA has advanced the knowledge of actuarial science through international partnerships and key communication. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: This article is an account of an actuary traveling to the International Congress of Actuaries in Tokyo and the experience and knowledge gained.

Description: Accomplishments of the past year and a look at initiatives for the year ahead.

Description: This article describes the membership of the SOA outside of the United Sates. An informal count places the number of such members in active practice at 406.

Description: This article discusses the decision to have the International Actuarial Association and the International Forum of Actuarial Associations be administered by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in Ottawa.

Description: This article updates the reader on the activities of the recently formed International Committee of the Joint Risk Management Section. With global webinars and more activities, this committee is ensuring the risk management word is spread throughout the world.

Description: The letter from the president features an excerpt of SOA President Mark J. Freedman’s address to members at the 2013 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit calling for the profession to embrace international development, seek out new opportunities for growth, and become involved in research and public policy.

Description: Highlights of the SOA international strategy statement, International Committee topics, and other SOA international activities.

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

Description: Continuing a line which started in Vienna as far back as 1927, COINTRA an acronym for “Cooperation Internationale pour les Assurances des Risclues Aggraves” held its 14th conference in Stockholm from 9th to 12th June, 1981. Some 110 representatives from life assurance and reassurance companies, established in more than a dozen countries, were in attendance for the purpose of exchanging information and reviewing developments in substandard life assurance.