Description: The article discusses the critical role of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) within insurance companies, particularly amidst changes in accounting regimes like USGAAP Long-Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) and International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 and implications of these changes on FP&A activities.

Description: Read the January 2020 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Read about the Demographic Change in Mexico - An Opportunity and Challenge for the Insurance Industry.

Description: Description of the stage of development of economic risk-based solvency regulation in Latin America, with focus on Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

Description: Purchase Accounting for Insurance Business Combination under China-GAAP from an Actuarial Perspective – Part II

Description: The standard for measuring retirement income adequacy has been the final earnings replacement rate (usually targeted at 70%). But - does it work?

Description: Read the January 2017 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Briefing about recent activity of the International Section Council Members and initiatives

Description: Read the September 2016 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Discussing impacts of innovation on the actuarial industry.

Description: January issue of International News

Description: New Zealand is about to launch its first variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. The product design is mindful of the lessons from the financial crisis in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Description: recap of the East Asian Actuarial Conference

Description: International Newseltter issue 58 January 2013

Description: This essay examines several key factors that have contributed to China’s success in the economic reform spanning the past three decades and the double-edged nature of these factors going forward.

Description: This article describes the insurance market in Greece.

Description: Volatility managed funds, which focus the measurement of an investor’s risk appetite on the volatility of the portfolio, have grown popular in the Asian markets recently, particularly in Japan. This article discusses a typical volatility managed strategy and presents performance comparisons between volatility managed funds and other comparable market strategies. The advantages of target volatility managed funds to investors and insurers are also included.

Description: There are many interesting international activities under way in 2011 both by your council and by other parts of the Society of Actuaries, (SOA) so this is an exciting year on the international front.

Description: This is the newsletter, International News, issue 51 published in August of 2010 by the International Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the trend towards an integrated approach to defined benefit plan funding and investments that is taking place in England.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the impact of moving to International Accounting Standards in Taiwan.

Description: April 2010 issue of the newsletter of the International Section.

Description: In this article, the author talks about how China’s insurance industry is entering a transitional period characterized by greater focus on risk management and governance.

Description: In this article, the author talks about being an actuary on the island of Cyprus.

Description: August 2009 issue of International News.

Description: In this article, the author talks about how the actuarial profession can position itself as the natural choice for complex risk management work.

Description: This is a story of a small insurance company in Argentina “David” that attempted to determine optimal retention levels and the cost of different reinsurance programs by using actuarial techniques.

Description: April 2009 issue of the International Section, International News.

Description: A Canadian discusses his experiences working in the emerging insurance market of Vietnam, which is rapidly growing and positioning itself in the current global market.

Description: A discussion of a the Colombian Army Forces pension plan model.

Description: December 2008 issue of the International Section, International News.

Description: August issue of the International News.

Description: ERM in the Brazilian market

Description: Newsletter produced by the International Section

Description: Discusses the shrinkage of pension benefits in Britain and the mortality and interest rate risk in British pension plans.

Description: Full version of International Section News, July 2007, Issue No. 42.

Description: Full version of International Section News, April 2007, Issue No. 41.

Description: Full version of International Section News, November 2006, Issue 40.

Description: Over the past year the actuarial profession, led by the Society of Actuaries, has taken a step back to review the role of the actuary in today’s global economy. In doing so, the actuarial profession has decided to reposition the “actuary brand.”

Description: Full version of International Section News, November 2005, Issue No. 37.

Description: Full Version of International Section News, April 2005, Issue No. 35.

Description: This article recaps the causes of the failure of Mutual Life, discusses the response of the government of Jamaica and explains the appointed actuary's new role. which includes the role of whistle blower.

Description: Full version of International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: This article provides highlights of a team of delegates from the Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan visit to Chicago. From International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: Deferred Bonus Reserves by William R. Horbatt & C. Daniel Stubbs, Jr. from International Section News,October 2004

Description: This article highlights the two days the Republic of China Delegates spent in the Chicago area meeting with Actuaries in Chicago.

Description: Mexico News for Q2, 2004 Dynamic Solvency Testing Has Arrived in Mexico by Jose L. Berrios from International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: An english summary of the new regulation Circular s-20.12 requiring all Mexican Insurance Companies to test their current and projected surplus position in relation to the minimum required capital using a set of scenarios.

Description: Deferred bonus policyholder dividend reserves arise because “the policyholders’ share of net income … that cannot be distributed to stockholders shall be excluded from stockholders’ equity” by establishing a reserve. This article provides background on local minimum policyholder participation practices in the US and Europe, presents relevant accounting issues and discuss the two different accounting interpretations and make a recommendation as to which the authors feel is most appropriate at this point in time.

Description: Editor’s Note by Randy Makin from International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: This is a brief report on the trip that the author made with two other SOA members, Bruce Schobel and Jim Wiseman, to Almaty, Kazakhstan during the week of September 1, 2003. They were invited by the Actuarial Society of Kazakhstan [ASK] to conduct several seminars for their members and various government officials. The trip was financed by USAID through a grant to the Arizona-Kazakhstan Foundation. The topics of the seminars were pension/social security reform, role of the actuary in an economy, annuity pricing/ reserving and professionalism.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 2001, Issue No. 25.

Description: A case study on starting the actuarial profession in a new location - in this case Kazakhstan.

Description: Full version of International Section News, February 1999, Issue No. 18.

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

Description: Seminars in Asia Mark a First by Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao from International Section News, September 1998, Issue No. 17.

Description: Full version of International Section News, September 1998, Issue No. 17.