Description: Research report that presents results of a company survey examining the extent to which the buyers of individual life reinsurance are concerned about reinsurance capacity and the concentration of risk on their own books and on the books of reinsurers.

Description: In today’s competitive environment, there is an increasing focus on the process of selecting life reinsurers, largely as a result of two industry trends, namely consolidation and the amount of reinsurance ceded.

Description: This survey is an annual survey that captures individual and group life data from U.S. and Canadian life reinsurers.

Description: This article discusses the results of the annual SOA life reinsurance survey, which captures individual and group life data from US and Canadian reinsurers.

Description: Presents the results of the 2014 Life Reinsurance Survey - an annual survey showing new business writings and in force figures by reinsurance company for the North American life reinsurance industry (US and Canada)

Description: Discussion of a Reinsurance Arbitration Survey covering the period 1998–2001 Also a discussion of the shrinking number of life reinsurance companies in the USA

Description: Highlights from Munich Re’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section and covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: Feature article discussing that as financial markets have rumbled and cession rates have fallen, life reinsurers have been focused on pricing stability.

Description: Identifies current trends and considerations when setting the mortality improvement assumption for individual life insurance in the US.

Description: This is a discussion of miscellaneous topics. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 12 Pt. 2 Includes discussion of automation opportunities, persistency studies, and stop-loss and catastrophe reinsurance