Description: Discusses the early days of India's opening up of it's insurance markets and the actuarial profession.

Description: An interesting article demonstrating how life insurance premiums are treated differently around the world.

Description: Brief discussion about the prior years International Section meetings and the upcoming meeting in 2004.

Description: An article explaining the conversion of the Israeli financial reporting scheme to a pseudo-GAAP method with acquisition expenses fully deferred and amortized in a straight line over 15 year. DAC was fully written off upon lapse. Initial results were good but then problems developed.

Description: The first preliminary results on international experience studies on mortality and persistency for the pilot countries of Taiwan, Mexico and South Korea are discussed and future expansion of the studies are explained.

Description: Brief discussion about the changing membership of the SOA International Section Council. Also covered were requests for suggestions future initiatives.

Description: A discussion of how health insurance is evolving in Panama from indemnity type plans to managed care plans.

Description: This article provides an update of the intense recent activity around the International Accounting Reporting Standards including the release of IFRS 4, the creation of the European Financial institution advisory group, exposure draft guidance for actuaries involved in financial reporting and the Penrose report focusing on the problems of U.K. Equitable Life.

Description: A brief primer of the euro, its noted lack of impact on the European Life insurance and pension industries and anticipates the expansion of the European Union,

Description: In this article, the author discusses long-term care and eldershield in Singapore.