Description: This presentation discusses a process for determining the minimum reinsurance retention level consistent with defined parameters. The conclusions reached were: 1. Under PDS dependence, optimal reinsurance strategy is multivariate stop loss form. 2. Explicit solutions could be derived in certain bivariate model. 3. Binding and unbinding constraints are equivalent. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2012, Vol. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: participation in strain, United States or international structure, type of stock ownership and tax implications.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion examines the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model law regarding the use of assumption reinsurance.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. The panel discussed the current challenges in the health reinsurance marketplace. Topics included traditional quota share reinsurance, employer and provider stop-loss coverage, difficulties in obtaining reliable and credible data from a ceding carrier and terrorism reinsurance.

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: Discussion of asset coinsurance, including how the arrangements work, risks involved, goals of transactions, relationship issues between the ceding and assuming companies, and regulatory issues.

Description: Essay offers a vision of health care where everyone is covered, everyone is eligible, receives fair pricing, receives vital information and is taxed the same.

Description: This paper analyzes the optimal retention level with a portfolio of insurance risks, and premiums invested in risk-free and risky assets. Optimality is defined here as maximizing expected utility of terminal payout.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 48OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists focus on emerging U.S. GAAP accounting issues, and the implementation issues encountered by affected companies. The panelists discuss Statement of Position [SOP] 03-1 on nontraditional long-duration life insurance contracts, the SOP on internal replacements, and the impact of the Derivatives Implementation Group issue B36 on embedded derivatives for modified coinsurance and funds withheld reinsurance. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.