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: The current insurance maket in Malaysia and the potential for future growth is described.

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: To explore the main drivers of the growing force of Chinese Life Insurance Industry.

Description: Valerie Tsang and Jessica Kirkwood are both senior consultants with Ernst & Young LLP (EY UK) and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) respectively, who also have something else in common—they both have recently moved to a new country and are now immersed in a different market. Here, they discuss the quick-changing landscape of actuarial work and regulations and the importance of being aware of the key issues both in the countries they work in and globally, as well as some of the differences they have seen between the UK and US markets.

Description: Discusses the issues papaer to be released by the International Accounting Standards for Insurance to cover accounting issues for insurance contracts as opposed to insurance companies.

Description: Details are told about the life insurance market in the Philippines. Pre-need and savings plans for education are emphasized.

Description: In this article, the authors discuss the low interest rate in Taiwan and its effect on the life insurance industry.

Description: A historical perspective on the Japanese life insurance industry and the significant changes it was expected to undergo.

Description: Describes a new tax approach in Ireland and the interest it is attracting.