Description: Korea Ambassador’s Report—June 1997 by Stephan Rajotte from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15.

Description: A discussion of the results of the Society of Actuaries China Committee membership survey performed to determine what the region’s members thought were the most important objectives and to identify their needs.

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: 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: 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Standards including the release of IFRS 4, the creation of the European Financial institution advisory group, exposure draft guidance for actuaries involved in financial reporting and the Penrose report focusing on the problems of U.K. Equitable Life.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 the insurance market in Switzerland.