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: Panelists discussed the implications of the growing trend in Canada toward demutualization of mutual companies into stock companies. Topics covered include: 1. The Canadian demutualization process and some interesting differences between companies and across borders. 2. How is eligibility determined? 3. What process is being used to determine allocation of shareholder value? 4. What mechanisms are in place to protect policyholders' reasonable expectations? 5. What internal and financial structural changes are driven by demutualization? 6. How financial markets assess stock value for companies operating internationally.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session focused on the advantages and practical applications of offshore reinsurance. Topics included: · Types of reinsurance · Brief history of the development of the offshore market · Tax and regulatory advantages · Number of reinsurers and size of market · Risks that offshore reinsurance can best address · Financial reinsurance arrangements · Impact of Regulation XXX on demand and price · Regulatory considerations · Details of the use of letters of credit

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses basic considerations and the process of an international acquisition or merger.

Description: Description of the Fifth Annual Convention of the Actuarial Society of Zimbabwe.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session discussed the considerations in performing due diligence on a reinsurance partner and the impact of deteriorating credit quality. Topics included: 1. Letters of credit 2. Arbitration and disputes. 3. Impact of mergers and acquisitions. 4. Offshore reinsurance. 5. NAIC issues.

Description: This article provides an introduction to comparative health policy for developed, developing and third-world countries. From Health Watch News, September 2006, Issue No. 53.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at global investing. Areas discussed include rationale for investing globally, fixed income opportunities, a model for active global investing, and other issues.