Description: Section Chair discusses Council plans for the year.

Description: Sustainable operations under changes in accounting principles and solvency standards

Description: This article presents the Hong Kong Ambassador's Report. From International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15.

Description: Update on the SOA International experience study. The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative.

Description: In 2004, the Society of Actuaries conducted a survey of the financial assumptions contained in published 2003 embedded value reports. This article presents an update to the survey conducted last year.

Description: On behalf of The Actuarial Demography Team of CREAD (Centre for Research in Applied Economics for Development, Algiers, Algeria), Farid FLICI hosted Arpita DAS from Actuaries Without Borders (AWB) belonging to the International Association of Actuaries (IAA) to facilitate a 3 days training on "Data Science for Health & Life Insurance" for actuaries in Algiers. The training was held in CREAD's from 23th to 25th of December 2018 and was attended by actuaries and statisticians from insurance companies, public insurance regulators, social security organizations, and academia.

Description: Highlights of two 2018 health events organized by the Colombian Association of Actuaries and sponsored by the Colombian Government. Seminar on Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling in Health. Seminar on Risk Management for the Health Insurers

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: Bell is comparing his roles from that of an actuary in the USA to that of an actuary working in Cameroon, for a pan-African insurance company.

Description: An article presenting updated results as of 12/2021 by using analgorithm that formed part of a paper presented at the AFIR-ERMColloquium which took place in Panama, in 2017. This article starts by proving that the conditions that have to be met in order for the formula to apply that were present in 12/2015 still hold.