Description: Summary of the Insurance Market Behavior and Health Insurance Seminar Held in Beijing. The purpose of the seminar was to introduce the special characteristics of health insurance markets and health insurance to actuaries and insurance executives in countries where health insurance products are in their formative stages.

Description: Highlights a visit made by the President of the Society of Actuaries to the Far East. Specifically, he shares his learnings about the actuarial profession in Shanghai, Bejjing, Hong Kong and Taipei, locations that contain more than 6 percent of the SOA membership.

Description: The author discusses riding the globalization wave. To walk on water in the information flood and the foreseeable globalization wave, we need the highest business ethical standards, the wisdom to make informed decisions, and the willingness to have an open-mind with patience to accept and handle differences. All of these can be summarized in these qualities: responsible, caring and respectful.

Description: Discussion of the business environment in Brazil as it pertains to insurers and insurance business opportunities.

Description: Describes the risk-based capital measure adopted in Switzerland.

Description: Jose Berrios uses a hike in La Paz, Bolivia to illustrate business concepts

Description: The U.K. Actuarial Profession—the Faculty and the Institute of Actuaries—has recently been addressing what they should be doing for their international members.

Description: Following up my prior “Chairperson’s Corner” article, summarizing the section’s plans and priorities for the year, I am pleased to report that on behalf of the council, we are making good progress on execution of our prior stated plans.

Description: Destination Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas was all it took for the Caribbean Actuarial Association (CAA) to attract its largest attendance ever to its annual conference. Make no mistake, the program was not to be outdone either. It featured presidents of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries, and actuarial and business experts from around the world.

Description: The author discusses his experiences while spending four days in Kazakhstan as a lecturer for the First Actuarial School of the Kazakhstan Actuarial Society.