Description: Understanding U.S. defined-benefit plan annual funding notice definitions and what they are meant to represent is a key to understanding how “healthy” or “unhealthy” a pension plan is. This article offers a description of several types of funded status measurements and their applications under the rules mandated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to fund private employer-sponsored defined-benefit pension plans.

Description: An interview with a health insurance expatriate actuary working in Brazil, discussing his experiences and the health insurance market in Brazil

Description: Discusses the recent changes to U.K. pensions legislation.

Description: A broad discussion of Israel’s Life Insurance Industry

Description: Insurance Regulation in Spain In response to the 1995 Ordinance on the Supervision of Private Insurers, the Direccion General de Seguros DGS has proposed a sweeping new set of regulations. These regulations replace the 1985 and 1986 regulations their amendments and are intended bring Spanish regulation and practice line with the European Community EC directives. This article reviews some key aspects of the new Spanish regulation and discusses possible responses by the insurance market.

Description: Recovery and Regulatory Changes in Indonesia by Richard Holloway from International Section News, September 2000, Issue No. 23.

Description: Society of Actuaries' 1998 New Zealand Ambassador’s Report, including a discussion of two industry-related developments dealing with the privatization of worker's compensation and the consolidation of the insurance industry

Description: A review of the recent history of the actuarial profession in Pakistan and the near term future as of the year 2000.

Description: Evaluation of Taiwan's National Health insurance program and a discussion of a managed competition model to reform it.

Description: A discussion of the causes of Jamaica’s Life Insurance and Financial Sector Crisis in the late 1990s and its impacts on the life insurance industry