Description: Can immigration in Europe actually help to mitigate the looming pension crisis.

Description: Read the January 2017 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Briefing about recent activity of the International Section Council Members and initiatives

Description: A new generation of Armenian actuaries have started to write SOA exams. The state of development of the profession is explored in this article.

Description: Society of actuaries in Mongolia, established in 2008, recently recognized CAA qualification. They aim to become a full member at the IAA in near future.

Description: An account of the first South Asian Actuarial Conference organized by the Actuarial Association of Sri Lanka.

Description: The article talks abouts the launching of ActuET in Tunisia. ActuET is a new born student association which tend to promote actuarial sciences in Tunisa

Description: Recap of ICA 2018

Description: The paper begins by questioning the wisdom of making pension provision when negative real rates of return are on offer. It then explores an alternative means of securing your standard of living in retirement: repurchasing of goods and services. The pros and cons are considered. There are risks but they are different ones. The author is not sure that the world is ready for such an approach; not yet anyway. But if the financial sector becomes too bloated, who knows?

Description: recap of the mortality working group meeting.