Description: Updates from SOA Ambassadors from Japan, Malaysia, Latin America and Caribbean, Argentina, Vietnam and China. Additionally biographies and 2011-12 work plans for the new Ambassadors for Taiwan, France, Ireland and Mexico are presented. From International News, August 2011.

Description: The article compares China's variable annuities with India's NAV guaranteed ULIPs. Both of them mostly working on CPPI. The comparison is mainly focused on market competition landscape, unit-linked business market share, incentives of introducing the product, and the macro-economic environment in the two countries.

Description: New Zealand Ambassador’s Report by Richard Geisler from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15.

Description: An article explaining the conversion of the Israeli financial reporting scheme to a pseudo-GAAP method with acquisition expenses fully deferred and amortized in a straight line over 15 year. DAC was fully written off upon lapse. Initial results were good but then problems developed.

Description: A discussion of how health insurance is evolving in Panama from indemnity type plans to managed care plans.

Description: In this article, the author discusses long-term care and eldershield in Singapore.

Description: This article contains biographies and 2010-11work plans for the Society of Actuaries International Section's new ambassadors in Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Pakistan.

Description: The SOA added a new title to its book offerings: International Financial Reporting for Insurers (IFRI) (available in print and digital editions). The article describes the salient features of the work, which presents a comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals outlined in key International Financial Reporting Standards® (IFRS®).

Description: Update from the International Section chairperson.

Description: The Actuarial Society of Turkey (AST) is a professional association which was established on May 25, 1951. The mission of the Actuarial Society of Turkey is to serve the public and Turkish actuarial profession. Primary purposes of the AST are to contribute to the development of actuarial science, to increase the professional knowledge of members, to protect the professional interests of them and their clients and to ensure solidarity among them. The Actuarial Society of Turkey is a full member of International Actuarial Association (IAA) and Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE).