Description: This article examines the development of the new Brazilian annuitant mortality table, and explores the current and future effects of this table.

Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: The article considers how actuaries have responded to long term changes in the past and considers how to deal with two changes ion the future: pension provision when bond yields are low and long term care.

Description: The article compares China's variable annuities with India's NAV guaranteed ULIPs. Both of them mostly working on CPPI. The comparison is mainly focused on market competition landscape, unit-linked business market share, incentives of introducing the product, and the macro-economic environment in the two countries.

Description: Between the end of the 80’s and the 90´s, the annuity and universal life market started to develop in Argentina in an environment limited by the volatility of the financial market. As a consequence, plans with Fluctuation Funds were developed and proved to be successful. This paper provides a general overview of this experience and the innovations made in Argentina in this matter.

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: In this article, the author compares evolution of the annuity market in the United Kingdom to one’s progression through the actuarial examination system.

Description: This document contains material excerpted from a speech given on June 17, 1997 by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Singapore. It focuses on the life insurance industry around the world and some of the forces driving change and their implications.

Description: In this article, the author talks about the Brazilian life insurance and annuity markets.

Description: Discusses a one day seminar in Shanghai, China held on August 25, 2011 by the SOA and the China Regional Committee on variable annuities.