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: This article provides an update, as of July 2020, on the Reinsurance Section’s sponsored research in process and studies recently completed.

Description: Feature article discussing what’s to transpire at the upcoming Canadian reinsurers industry meeting.

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .

Description: Announcement of the best article published in the Reinsurance News in 2021.

Description: In PLR 202109001, the IRS ruled that a proposed assumption reinsurance transaction between related foreign parties changing the counter party obligated to a domestic corporation (“Taxpayer”) under an existing agreement did not give rise to Taxpayer being treated as making a base erosion payment (“BEP”), as Taxpayer did not receive a deduction under §832(b)(4)(A) from the amount of gross premiums written on insurance contracts during the taxable year for premiums paid for reinsurance.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey conducted in August of 2008 on foreign travel underwriting practices of reinsurance companies.

Description: With the IDI market consolidating, panelists at this session 47PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss significant considerations in selling or buying a block of IDI business, relative to reinsurance, valuation, tax, and regulatory issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: This article summarizes the Reinsurance Section's recent research efforts.

Description: Attitudes on strategy and risk in reinsurance vary according to specific environmental circumstances for most companies. This article is an extract from the 2007 surveys in the U.S. market.