Description: An update on the China insurance industry and the issues surrounding the admission of foreign insurance companies

Description: Life insurance products in China need to evolve as insurance regulations change.

Description: There are reasons for the retirement actuary to be optimistic about the future of our practice. There are reasons to believe that actuaries will play an increasingly large and valuable role in the retirement industry and there are significant opportunities for growth—from both an individual and a profession wide perspective— within the pension consulting field.

Description: This article discusses the goals set and progress-to-date for creating a standard file format for economic scenario generation.

Description: Read the ARCH 2013.2 editor's comments.

Description: This paper gives an overview of fuzzy optimization, presents applications of fuzzy optimization and investigates ways to extend the methodology to risk assessment.

Description: This abstract desribes a paper that models the stock market return, interest rate and other market variables to simulate potential future returns of EIUL.

Description: Adopting U.S. GAAP for Pre-Need Plans in the Philippines by Frank J. Buck from The Financial Reporter, December 2002, Issue No. 51.

Description: Provides a comparison of methodologies between Actuarial Guideline 43 and C-3 Phase II RBC to help the practitioner calculate both RBC and reserves in an accurate but efficient manner.

Description: Article examines some of the shortcomings of Market Consistent Embedded Value reporting as it is currently constructed—particularly in periods of heightened volatility—and recommends some possible improvements that the CFO Forum is likely to consider.