Happy birthday ASM and something on EAAC

Do you know that the Actuarial Society of Malaysia was founded on this day 31 years ago? I bet most people have forgotten.

Well happy birthday, ASM!

And do you know that ASM was actually the first host country for the East Asian Actuarial Conference back in 1981? It was called "Actuarial Society of Malaysia, 1981 International Seminar". Almost all of us were not in the industry then and of course for the younger ones , you were not even born!

This year the 15th EAAC will be held in Seoul and the event will take place next week. 11 delegates from Malaysia have signed up. This is a much higher number compared to 3 Malaysian delegates who signed up for the 1999 EAAC also held in Seoul which I attended (only 2 attended out of the 3 who signed up). In case you don't know, Malaysia is the host country for the 16th EAAC to be held in year 2011 tentatively from 10 - 13 October, after a long 30-year wait.

Host countries for the 16 EAACs:

1981 Malaysia
1983 Singapore
1985 Philippines
1987 Hong Kong
1989 Taiwan
1991 Indonesia
1993 Singapore
1995 Japan
1997 Thailand
1999 Korea
2001 Hong Kong
2003 Philippines
2005 Indonesia
2007 Japan
2009 Korea
2011 Malaysia

Stay tuned and we will bring you more news on EAAC in days to come and over the next 2 years.