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2025
July
- Preserving and Expanding the Role of Insurance in a Fragmented Global Economy: Insights for Actuaries
- The Reinsurance Landscape in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands
- Rethinking LTC Insurance: The Role of Housing Wealth
- On the Pulse of Policyholders with Wearables
Originally published by November 26, 2024 by the copyright holder, General Reinsurance AG, and included here with its permission.
March
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Beyond Limits: What 26 Miles of Running and 1,000 Miles of Cycling Taught Me About Resilience
January
2024
November
- Chairperson's Corner
- 25 Lebanese Years of Experience with the Society of Actuaries
- Indian Insurance Industry at a Glance
July
- Chairperson's Corner
- Inclusive Insurance: A Different Game
- Actuaries Helping Social and Financial Development: An Introduction to Actuaires du Monde
May
- Chairperson's Corner
- Actuarial Growth in the Middle East, Africa & Pakistan Region
- Transforming FP&A Practices Post-LDTI and IFRS 17
March
January
2023
November
- Chairperson’s Corner
- SOA International Strategy: Q&A with Andy Peterson, Managing Director International
July
May
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Interview With the New 2022-2023 International Section Council Members
- Management Navigation and Readiness for the Implementation of IFRS 17 and New Solvency Standards for Life Insurers
March
January
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Financial KPIs in the New IFRS 17 World
- Defining a Posteriori Distribution of a Long-Term Rate Structure: A Mixed and Empirical Approach Based on Fisher’s Formula
2022
November
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Life Insurance Customer Value per Dollar
- Fair Value under IFRS 17 and Market Risk Benefits under LDTI: a Comparative Evaluation
This article was originally published in July 2022 on milliman.com and is being reprinted with permission.
July
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Interest Rates and Sumo
- Assisting Alcaraván in Colombia
- Covid-19 Impact on the South African Life Insurance Industry: What Can we Learn?
May
- Chairperson’s Corner
- 3 Barriers Asian Women Overcome to Become Leaders
- SCOR Supports Actuarial Science in Five Countries in 2021
March
- Chairperson’s Corner
- Building Societal Resilience during a Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Covid-19
- Design Your Future with the Competency Framework
This article originally appeared in the October 2020 issue of Actuary of the Future.
January
- Chairperson's Corner
- The Ecuadorian Actuarial Association as a new Full Member of the IAA
- Secrets of Effective Business Writing
2021
November
- Expanded Medical Underwriting in Jordan: A Pilot for Other Emerging Public Health Insurance Markets
- Top Five Differences Between IFRS 17 and Solvency II
July
- The UK’s Post COVID-19 Mental Health Fallout and Implications for Insurers
- Coinsurance as a Capital Optimization Tool in Korea: Attracting Increased External Capital Through Alignment with Global Practices
May
- How COVID-19 Affected Insurance Innovation: One Year On
- IFRS 17: Introduction to Subledger System
- The 2019 Rome Court Tables: A “New” Threat in Italian Courts?
March
- Pandemics, Professionalism, and Actuaries
- COVID-19 in Mexico and the Challenges for Actuaries
- Mexico: Rocky Road to Recovery
January
- Health Care Funding Report
- Life and Health in Asia: Exploring the Evolution of Employee Benefits
- Women in Insurance: A Global Award
2020
2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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