Description: The presenters will explore the long-term care insurance product and its impact on potential transactions. Discuss why the inherent risks of this product create challenges for buyers and sellers in this market.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting features a debate over the question of whether the typical wording in a YRT reinsurance treaty allows a reinsurer to raise their rates or not.

Description: When annuity products became prevalent in the U.S., they all looked more or less the same. It was where folks put their safe retirement money, yielding modest guaranteed returns with a menu of payout options to help secure their retirement. Over time, this commoditization lead to a pricing squeeze and an exhaustive set of product options and features, exposing carriers to market and policyholder behavior risk over the past decade or so.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting focuses on reinsurance issues including profitability, internationalization, product revolutions, joint ventures and financial reinsurance for raising capital.

Description: The panel discussed US federal income taxes, addressing parts of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility Act of 1982- TEFRA- related to life insurance company taxes and policy owner aspects that are involved. Discussion of the repeal of existing tax law provisions relating to certain reinsurance transactions is also discussed

Description: Panelists discuss issues related to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session discussed the considerations in performing due diligence on a reinsurance partner and the impact of deteriorating credit quality. Topics included: 1. Letters of credit 2. Arbitration and disputes. 3. Impact of mergers and acquisitions. 4. Offshore reinsurance. 5. NAIC issues.

Description: In this interactive forum, presenters will share best practices to get the most out of your AU program. Explore trends in regulations, big data tools and predictive models. Case studies will be used to illustrate how monitoring results can provide actionable information for management to update programs and what it all means for accelerated underwriting programs. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of how tools are evolving, regulatory trends and best practices for explaining decisions to applicants, as well as targeted changes to accelerated underwriting programs

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. Panelists discussed recent product development, tax law changes, and increased competition in the annuity market, and some consequences for reinsurers and annuity writers.