Description: International Section Newsletter, November 2007, Issue No. 43. We will be exploring International Cooperation, Globalization, Convergence and the Global Village.

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: Provides information on the 3 incoming Council members.

Description: This article explores promising changes to Canada’s retirement system that are necessary to ensure it’s available now and for the next generation.

Description: A recap of the first international reinsurance conference to take place in the Dominican Republic.

Description: The editor provides highlights of the May 2013 issue of International News and calls on international members to provide feedback to the Society of Actuaries as it continues to become a more global organization.

Description: Understanding U.S. defined-benefit plan annual funding notice definitions and what they are meant to represent is a key to understanding how “healthy” or “unhealthy” a pension plan is. This article offers a description of several types of funded status measurements and their applications under the rules mandated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to fund private employer-sponsored defined-benefit pension plans.

Description: Article describing Actuaries Without Borders helping to organize an actuarial workshop in Vietnam.

Description: A look at U.S. and Dutch multiemployer plans.