Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 54PD, from the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 24-27 in New York. Asking the question ‘what's causing a scarcity of capital in the life insurance and life reinsurance industries?’ the panelists discuss emerging sources of capital, and the issues surrounding capital, looking at possible responses from ceding companies, reinsurers, regulators, and rating agencies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 3.

Description: This presentation, session number 42TS, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. This teaching session discusses various nontraditional reinsurance solutions, along with their advantages and disadvantages, that are designed to address group insurance issues. Solutions include finite reinsurance, stop-loss, and surplus relief. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Panel of experts provided an overview of expanding insurance and reinsurance markets in Mexico and South America Argentina, Brazil, and Chile and the North American offshore market. They explained the role of reinsurance in these markets, including development, growth, products, solvency/capital requirements, financial reporting, and regulatory aspects.

Description: This presentation, session number 40OF, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the different available types of individual disability reinsurance, including excess coverage, quota share, stop loss, finite reinsurance, and financial reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: The days of reinsurance treaties bound by a handshake are long gone. Treaties have evolved into complex legal documents. The session will use a recently released study on recapture provisions as a starting point and will expand the discussion to other key treaty provisions. The focus will be on understanding the intentions, concerns and relative positions of both the direct company and the reinsurer so that a mutually beneficial compromise can be explored.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss consolidation in the reinsurance market, including an overview of recent activity, antitrust considerations, effect on direct writers, and post-consolidation integration issues. Use of the Herfindahl Index as a measure of market concentration is discussed.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The presentation notes that “as reinsurance is used more frequently in major joint ventures and capital raising deals, it comes under increased public scrutiny from regulators, rating agencies and the press. The Federal Government also has been investigating the role of reinsurance in connection with the financial health of insurers.” The panelists' discussion is intended to “help reinsurance actuaries prepare to give testimony and interviews, and to become proactive in explaining the needs and proper uses for reinsurance.”Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 45OF, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. In this session, the panelists provide an update on the current uses of reinsurance, including term insurance, mortality stabilization, earnings volatility stabilization, variable life and annuities and other investment-oriented products, health insurance, and nontraditional uses. They discuss uses of reinsurance for specific products and lines of business, reinsurance as a financial tool, and due diligence issues in selecting reinsurers. Statutory and GAAP accounting considerations are presented. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the current state of the Group Life product space.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting addresses long-term care reinsurance, annuity reinsurance - dealing with the shift from variable to fixed, the global life and life reinsurance market, personal accident reinsurance and the catastrophe market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.