Description: This is a discussion of the paper published by Charles A. Ormsby titled, 'The Cost to Reinsure Individual Life Insurance Policies'. Discussion includes: 1. Given that reinsured business has higher mortality than non-reinsured business, why would companies issue it, 2. Suggestion that when costs of reinsurance are considered, reserves should be substituted for cash values to determine the 'statement costs', 3. Cost of reinsurance for a mutual company.

Description: The article was written to address a concern that the author had that reinsurance considerations were being relegated to the back of the product development cycle. He was concerned that reinsurance input on benefit design, underwriting and pricing was not getting into the process. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Q&A with Neil Sprackling, President, US Life & Health, Swiss Re, on next-generation underwriting.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 55PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. Low new money rates, new reserve requirements and the limited availability of reinsurance solutions have highlighted the risks associated with offering UL secondary guarantees. The panelists discuss the types of risks and emerging practices in risk assessment and pricing of UL secondary guarantees, the current UL market, recent developments in product, and pricing techniques. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

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: Articles on IRS private letter rulings on combination products, IRS treatment of reinsurance under section 845, and IRS waivers for failed contracts under section 7702.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1992 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker