Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion reports the progress the International Forum of Actuarial Associations made during its year and a discussion of plans for the coming year.

Description: Discusses earthquake risks and the actuarial profession in New Zealand.

Description: To explore the main drivers of the growing force of Chinese Life Insurance Industry.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting focuses on the professional issues facing the actuary working in the international environment. Topics to be discussed include licensing, education, code of conduct, and cultural differences. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

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 highlights 13 attributes shared by various groups of companies that landed in trouble. The companies are identified, and the attributes are described.

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: The challenges and rewards of an overseas move - adapting to a new country.

Description: background history of the insurance industry and the role of actuaries within it, followed by the current environment and anticipated future environment.

Description: Studying in London from a Jamaican’s experience and perspective.