The American Council of Life Insurers and The Society of Actuaries have joined forces creating a senior-level meeting for direct and reinsurance company constituents. ReFocus 2013: See the Future First, is an industry conference focusing on insurance issues that impact the life insurance industry. ReFocus 2013 brings together top industry professionals to share expertise and provide a venue for prime networking. ReFocus 2013 allows attendees to gain a competitive advantage, while learning creative solutions to global challenges.

This group of industry legal experts with experience in all parts of reinsurance transactions, from deal structuring to implementation to dispute resolution, will present a hypothetical case to a panel of arbitrators and to the audience for decision. The goal of this session is to identify "lessons learned” from prior transactions that can assist attendees with future transactions.

Slides from a presentation at the Society of Actuaries 2007 Annual Meeting, held in October, 2007 in Washington, D.C. Discussion of the possible impacts of principle-based reserving on the reinsurance business: impact on both the ceding and assuming companies

This paper is a discussion of reinsurance in a life reinsurance agreement which was produced by the Treaty Committee of the Reinsurance Section of the Society of Actuaries in August, 1994.

The 2013 Introduction to Reinsurance Boot Camp registration.

This one-day intensive seminar will cover the topic of Reinsurance for individual insurance companies. While the seminar will start with the basics as an introduction, it is meant to be an intensive deep-dive into many of the more complicated reinsurance programs in use by insurance organizations today. Insurance companies have for years used traditional reinsurance to help with various risk management issues. These traditional solutions still exist, but the business of reinsurance has continued to evolve. More complex and sophisticated reinsurance structures have been utilized to help companies manage capital, transfer risk and in some cases reduce reserve strain. Many actuaries at insurance companies do not have the opportunity to focus on understanding reinsurance issues and challenges in their daily work. That is one of the motivations behind organizing this boot camp. This one-day boot camp will take the attendees from the basics of individual reinsurance through to the more complex and innovative reinsurance strategies in use today. Topics will cover life and annuity reinsurance structures, as well as the capital and reserve financing structures, and how these structures affect insurance organizations.

The 2013 Introduction to Reinsurance Boot Camp Session 5.

The 2013 Introduction to Reinsurance Boot Camp Session 6.

The 2013 Introduction to Reinsurance Boot Camp Session 1.

Topics covered will include a description of the types of traditional and financial reinsurance solutions currently being used and how the practicality of these solutions differs between Canada and the United States. The panel will also offer their thoughts regarding how to ensure that a company's risks are appropriately managed through reinsurance in today's challenging economic environment. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to identify the types of reinsurance that may be helpful in managing their companies’ risks. They will benefit from learning how different companies have achieved success with various tools and why.