Description: In this article, the author discusses the insurance market in Switzerland.

Description: The author discusses international opportunities for actuaries, both paid and unpaid, in addition to activities of the Section Council's current activities. From International News, August 2011.

Description: Updates from SOA Ambassadors from Japan, Malaysia, Latin America and Caribbean, Argentina, Vietnam and China. Additionally biographies and 2011-12 work plans for the new Ambassadors for Taiwan, France, Ireland and Mexico are presented. From International News, August 2011.

Description: The author provides an overview of the Chinese health care system from its beginnings in in 1949 to the present day launching of the most comprehensive reform ever.

Description: The article compares China's variable annuities with India's NAV guaranteed ULIPs. Both of them mostly working on CPPI. The comparison is mainly focused on market competition landscape, unit-linked business market share, incentives of introducing the product, and the macro-economic environment in the two countries.

Description: The IAA has published a textbook-sized monograph on implementing risk adjustments under IFRS 17. This monograph will be helpful to those calculating the risk adjustment and those who want to know what the risk adjustment represents and how if affects period to period reporting.

Description: Microinsurance mechanisms provide coverage to low income earners, but a growing middle class is often lacking adequate access to insurance services. The author explores ways in which insurance may be more accessible.

Description: Why Should Life Insurers Care About Brexit?

Description: Read about the Demographic Change in Mexico - An Opportunity and Challenge for the Insurance Industry.

Description: Read the May 2020 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.