Description: This article explores how the SOA has advanced the knowledge of actuarial science through international partnerships and key communication. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 11

Description: A report of the recent meeting of the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA highlighting actuarial education, accounting standards and the organization's business plan.

Description: A Canadian actuary discusses the International Forum of Actuarial Associations IFAA, a section of the IAA, and highlights its support of professionalism, actuarial practice and actuarial education.

Description: This article is an introduction to the topic of mortality projections and their impact on social security systems. The article reviews two life expectancy graphs and overall trends in life expectancy by gender at birth and age 65 in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Description: Background on U.K. insurance products, and overview of recent developments that are stimulating the previously stagnant U.K. insurance market.

Description: This article discusses the highlights of the 11th Conference of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries conference held in Munich, Germany on July 3-8, 1988.

Description: Retirement benefits have become a seamless worldwide web. Thus actuaries who go to war in the international arena are painfully aware of the impact of U.S. technology on the battlefield. The debut of that awesome awful weapon, ERISA, and all its derivatives has persuaded many countries to adopt counterparts.

Description: Article is about actuarial summer school in Switzerland on Financing of Retirement Benefits.

Description: The financial services industry is becoming globally integrated. This article discusses significant developments and the implications for actuaries.

Description: The author supports the idea of developing a standard world wide definition of an actuary because the profession is not well known outside of the U.S. and U.K.