Description: New Zealand is about to launch its first variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. The product design is mindful of the lessons from the financial crisis in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Description: A discussion of the theoretically correct approach to the valuation of cross-border insurance ventures

Description: Summarizes the Section's sponsored 2011 Annual Meeting sessions: business meeting, receptions and 3 programs - 'IFRS: The Future of Accounting for Insurance and its Implications', 'Where Enterprise Risk Management Meets Capital Management' and 'Managing Longevity and Mortality Risks and their Global Activities', plus some non-technical sessions on successful retirement.

Description: This article covers considerations when an international parent may be faced with responsibility for a US retirement program.

Description: International Section Newsletter, April 2005, Issue No. 35. This article pertains to offshore pension plans and their role in global pension plans. It discusses the rationale for setting up an off-shore pension plan, determining a location, benefit design, required funding, establishment and operation and trusteeship and administration

Description: Discusses the shrinkage of pension benefits in Britain and the mortality and interest rate risk in British pension plans.

Description: An actuary has twins...and uses regression analysis to estimate their fetal vital statistics.

Description: This is the second article devoted to unique international accounting issues. The authors share their experience implementing SOP 03-1 in a number of countries.

Description: The author describes the 29th. edition of the International Summer School, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by the Swiss Association of Actuaries.