Description: CEOs of four of the world's leading life reinsurance companies discuss their views on the directions in which the life reinsurance industry is heading. Topics include an explanation of how changes in the world are impacting reinsurers and what actions are being taken by reinsurers to deal with these changes. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 107I of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session discusses potential developments in the 1980's with regards to: the impact of the force of competition on price levels and profit margins, growth in the market for life insurance and annuities, profit squeeze on stock companies due to continued high level of inflation, problems which will affect smaller stock companies abilities to compete and/or survive, changes in permanent versus term pricing practices and profit margins during the 1980's, changes in sources of profit and uses of free surplus, and continued attractiveness of insurers as acquisition targets.

Description: The session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers workers' compensation carve-out, spiral and medical reinsurance, GMDB reinsurance and select and ultimate term. It also discusses the lessons learned from the reinsurance disasters. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This report has been assembled by the Task Force as a comprehensive guide to practicing actuaries in evaluating the impact of AIDS on the solvency of life and health insurance companies in the US and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the reinsurance market as seen by the ceding company and whether there has been a 'tightening' in the market.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004. Arguments regarding the rights to deny reinsurance claims are presented by a representative of both a direct writer and a reinsurer.

Description: This 1979 session is about current developments in Life products. Products discussed: 1. Adjustable life 2. Universal life 3. Indexed coverages 4. Term Insurance plus accumulation fund 5. Level Premium Term to 100 6. Revertible Term

Description: Description of the world of reinsurance around the time the Reinsurance Section was formed.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews NAIC regulation of reinsurance, problems of reinsurance coverage on internal replacements and rewrites, a short Reinsurance Section business report and other current topics. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This session discussion is about AIDS and projecting extra mortality, implications of legislation & regulation, to what extent can AIDS deaths be identified, adequate pricing, limitations on underwriting and reinsurance implications. Includes examples from the UK and Australia. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1988 Vol. 14, No. 3.