Description: An overview of the second draft of ASOP number 4.

Description: In the evolving realm of healthcare actuarial practice, value-based contracts are reshaping the landscape. This article explores the pivotal role of AI-enhanced Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in empowering actuaries to navigate this dynamic sector. Despite challenges in data standardization, AI-enhanced EMRs offer a solution by extracting and standardizing diverse medical records. The article delineates how AI-EMR integration benefits actuaries and provider organizations, enabling more accurate forecasting, earlier shared savings prepayments, and real-time quality metric aggregation. Moreover, it discusses how this fusion addresses historical data limitations, can help project catastrophic claims, and can help identify risk score capture opportunities. Ultimately, it indicates the transformative potential of AI-EMR synergy, positioning actuaries at the forefront of healthcare analytics with unprecedented precision and insight.

Description: An overview of health care history and privatization developments in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Description: A Report on the October 1999 International Actuaries Section seminar, held in San Francisco

Description: A historical perspective on the Japanese life insurance industry and the significant changes it was expected to undergo.

Description: Describes a new tax approach in Ireland and the interest it is attracting.

Description: The Vietnamese life insurance industry is still in its infancy with the first Life insurance company being set up in 1996, however it has grown rapidly in all relevant measures.

Description: This article attempts to dispel some of the myths around the perceived unique nature of Asian markets. This part focuses on a risk management perspective, reviewing the current situation, including product diversification, competitive pressures, pricing issues, volume drivers, distribution customer relations, technical skills development, and special risk like AIDS, Hepatitis B and C and more.

Description: This article attempts to dispel some of the myths around the perceived unique nature of Asian markets. This part focuses on the future opportunities for market growth, appropriate risk models and challenges from claims management.

Description: This article highlights the value of actuarial mentoring both to the actuary volunteers and to the community through the use of their skills, knowledge and professional expertise.