Description: Discusses effect of allowing companies to sell health insurance policy in any state, if approved in one state, without requiring approval in any other state.

Description: Evaluation of Taiwan's National Health insurance program and a discussion of a managed competition model to reform it.

Description: This article contains material excerpted from a speech given on June 17, 1997 by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Singapore. The article includes demographic and economic data for various countries to illustrate the potential for growth in various Asian markets.

Description: A discussion of the causes of Jamaica’s Life Insurance and Financial Sector Crisis in the late 1990s and its impacts on the life insurance industry

Description: Discussion of developments in actuarial education, the regulatory licensing process for actuaries signing off on reserves and financial statements, and social security in Poland

Description: A review of the recent history of the actuarial profession in Pakistan and the near term future as of the year 2000.

Description: The Insurance Working Group of the IASB discussed models for the contract type, term insurance, in the second quarter. This summary of the current models will acquaint you with the key points of the models and a range of open issues.

Description: Discusses the steps taken in Singapore to improve governance and enhance disclosure for traditional life participating business.

Description: This paper takes the position that the most significant impact of pension funds on the U.K. economy relates to the costs imposed by extreme mismatching between their financial assets and liabilities. From Current Pension Actuarial Practice in Light of Financial Economics Symposium, M-RS04-1.

Description: The ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio Provisions