Description: Article describing some of the significant changes occurring in Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall with a focus on life insurance and conversion to a private pension market.

Description: We look in this article at the challenges which life insurance companies operating in a low interest environment have to face.

Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: Introductory Comments for the Response to Life Insurance 2020 Foresight – A Call for Essays e-Book. This e-book focuses on the vision for the future of the life insurance sector.

Description: Evan Borisenko looks at previous challenging environments for the life insurance industry, such as the a period of severe stagnation in the 1930s, the increased inflation in the 1980s and a catastrophe like the Spanish influenza after the World War I. Evan explains that "while each event described above challenged the life insurance industry in a unique way, each event stimulated an equally unique solution." The article concludes that we "fight to repeat history" in a way that we as actuaries should be able to propose unique solutions with when faced with crisis in the future.

Description: Provides an overview of India's insurance market and the important role of the actuary.