Description: This article looks at five reasons why the new image campaign will succeed. From Reinsurance News, February 2005. Article from Re-news, February 2005

Description: As IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts casts its net wide, reinsurers find themselves sailing toward new horizons of financial reporting. The transition to IFRS 17 is not just a regulatory compliance exercise but a transformational journey that reshapes the financial reporting landscape for reinsurers. The enhanced disclosure requirements, the granular contract-level accounting, and the measurement consistency across different reinsurance contracts promise to unveil a clearer financial picture. Yet, these new reporting waters could be choppy, demanding a sturdy understanding and application of IFRS 17's principles. This article describes benchmarking of IFRS 17 information provided at HY 2023 for four reinsurers.

Description: A summary of the impact of the "Internet of Things" on the insurance industry.

Description: The recent outbreak of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in Brazil and in at least 29 other countries and territories is a stark reminder of the risks associated with new, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. This article is intended to provide essential background information on the Zika virus in order to assist insurers’ understanding and risk assessment of the situation. Insurers must continually stay abreast of these risks and rapidly assess the potential impact on morbidity and mortality – often with only preliminary scientific or actuarial data

Description: Can the global reinsurance market emerge from its recent consistent underperformance and grasp the opportunity to build back a better more model that meets the demands of society as a whole as well as its traditional stakeholders

Description: This article provides a summary of the revised ASOP 11 ("Treatment of Reinsurance or Similar Risk Transfer Programs Involving Life Insurance, Annuities, or Health Benefit Plans in Financial Reports") which was effective December 1, 2022.

Description: This article describes the LEARN program which provides state regulators with a convenient means of obtaining the knowledge base needed to understand how reinsurance works. It is an update of the article originally published in the July 2011 issue Reinsurance News.

Description: Reinsurance News co-editor Ronald Poon-Affat discusses the morality and ethics involved in life insurance

Description: Read the November 2019 issue of Reinsurance News published by the Reinsurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Article about talent crisis in insurance industry