Description: Can immigration in Europe actually help to mitigate the looming pension crisis.

Description: Feature article describing the benefits of attending the ReFocus meeting.

Description: Chairman’s letter comparing risk management profile of the games of Craps and Life Settlements

Description: In setting future mortality assumptions for pricing, the actuary needs to consider not only recent results and recent annualized mortality improvements, but also must look at the possible impact of possible shocks epidemics, wars, etc.

Description: This article discusses the use of mortality catastrophe bonds as a risk mitigation tool.

Description: This article explores why life insurance sales have not increased dramatically during the worst pandemic in 100 years, and what affect this is having on the reinsurance industry.

Description: Discussion about the challenges of teaching life reinsurance to non-life reinsurance practitioners and regulators based on the experiences of the author

Description: Obesity is poised to overtake smoking as the leading preventable cause of death. What parallels can be drawn between public and reinsurance industry responses to these two lifestyle choices? Swiss Re investigates.

Description: Summary of the ReFocus Conference 2017 jointly sponsored by the ACLI and SOA.

Description: In the winning article in the International Section’s annual country feature article competition, the author recounts his experience of living in Zurich, Switzerland, and compares U.S. and Swiss cultural influences on health care.