Description: In this article, the author discusses the partisan politics in Taiwan, including its impact on the country's national health care system.

Description: This article summarizes the International Section's 2010-11 goals.

Description: This article contains a synopsis of the author's presentation at the 2011 Living to 100 symposium. The presentation discusses the aging of the population in India and its effect on the Indian economy.

Description: Summarizes author’s experience as an actuarial consultant and provides advice on working with clients, maintaining professional integrity, developing work/life balance, and investing in lifelong learning.

Description: In this paper, how various factors affect the mortality of retirees is investigated. It is found that the effect is often different for older ages than for younger ages. The method to develop actuarial models that take into account the factors will be discussed. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, Volume 38, No. 1.

Description: This article comments on the editorial policies of the Actuarial Research Clearing House publication.

Description: This paper first derives the fair participation rate based on a fair value of the equity-indexed annuity EIA. Then using risk measures, a new participation rate is obtained, based on the tail loading of the hedging error distribution. Risk management strategies reducing risk related to the hedging error are also presented. A detailed numerical analysis is performed for a point-to-point EIA.

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Description: This paper focuses on portfolios of exposed properties at risk of loss from natural perils such as wind and earthquake in the context of property/liability insurance.

Description: This paper addresses the questions of expectations from actuarial graduates and actuarial capabilities that they should have upon graduation.