Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: This article summarizes IFRS 4, the initial phase of international accounting standards for insurance contracts and provides and outlook for phase II.

Description: This article outlines the guiding principles for the continuing work on formalizing international strategy by the International Issues Advisory Group. Additionally noted is the draft report A Global Framework for Insurer Solvency, the second International Health Colloquium, and a new newsletter with a focus on the development of potential IAA Standards for Application with IASB standards.

Description: Discussion of the business environment in Brazil as it pertains to insurers and insurance business opportunities.

Description: Keynote Address from the Caribbean Actuarial Association Conference.

Description: The article provides insights about the need for revolutionary actuaries in Saudi Arabia due to the reform that is happening across the kingdom under all sectors. Then I talk briefly about the health sector and the transformation that is happing in the sector, and how qualified health actuaries can contribute to this health reform.

Description: A report on the Panamerican Congress of Actuaries in Bogota, Colombia in the fall of 1999. This is a forum for actuaries from Latin America. The topic of the conference was Social Security Reform in Latin America

Description: Details are told about the life insurance market in the Philippines. Pre-need and savings plans for education are emphasized.

Description: This article discusses the regulatory changes in Bermuda. There is an international initiative to review all insurance regulation by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors IAIS and the International Monetary Fund IMF.

Description: Recent global financial crisis has brought risk management into sharp focus for financial services organizations around the world. In order to help the professionals working at insurance companies in China to exchange ideas and learn international practices on corporate governance and risk management of the insurance sector, the China Association of Actuaries initiated the International Seminar on Risk and Solvency Management. This article summarizes the presentations given at the seminar held in Beijing on March 27, 2009.