Description: Feature article discussing a recent Peak Re survey about the growth of Asia's life insurance market.

Description: This article discusses Dan M. McGill's presentation on the subject of a guaranty fund for private pensions, given to the Senior Branch of the Actuaries Club of New York on March 26, 1968. Dr. McGill offered his thoughts on the technical characteristics of such a fund.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reinsurance including the effects of TEFRA on reinsurance tax planning, a picture of the reinsurance market over the last 10 years and surplus relief.

Description: Do you wish that you could join in when your friends talk about combined coinsurance/modified coinsurance? Do you feel out of place at parties when the discussion turns to the advantages of quota share versus excess arrangements? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1. From session 13TS of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.

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 article examines the shared challenges for primary writers and reinsurance including the older population, marketing, admin expenses, and regulations. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 4

Description: Read the July 2020 issue of Reinsurance News published by the Reinsurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: A tremendous amount of work goes into each issue of the Reinsurance News. At this year’s SOA Spring Meeting in New Orleans, we spent some time reviewing the strategy for the newsletters, both print and electronic, and identifying topic areas that would be of interest to section members. The section publishes an electronic newsletter, Re-News! on a timely basis as events or news items need to be distributed. The print newsletter will continue to be distributed twice a year.

Description: This article provides a review of the topics discussed at Refocus 2008.

Description: The transition to an open reinsurance market was made possible by a new regulatory environment effective 2007. The author believes Rio de Janeiro is the best location for entering reinsurance companies to establish their headquarters.