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

Description: This article contains a summary of the SOA International Experience Survey of Embedded Value Financial Assumptions. Topics surveyed include discount rate, equity return, fixed return, local government return, inflation, and tax rates.

Description: The most recent demographic data published in Mexico allows us to analyse in detail the profound demographic transition that has been taking place in the country for more than four decades. It is possible to develop forecasts for the future on the basis of this historic experience. The purpose of this article is not only to illustrate the profound demographic change in Mexico – and what it is expected to experience over the coming decades – but to highlight the challenges for the insurance industry posed by the various demographic trends. Wherever challenges are found, however, opportunities also exist, provided the industry succeeds in adequately transforming its own processes and meeting the needs of a changing market.

Description: In this article, the author presents a study on Egyptian life insurance mortality for ordinary standard life insurance business in Egypt, for the period July 7, 2003 to June 30, 2006.

Description: Write-up of 2018 Actuarial Research Conference from an international perspective.

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.