Description: Discussion of the increased use of reinsurance in the life insurance industry, including the causes and implications

Description: Highlights of the 1999 Manulife/SOA annual large amount/older age mortality study

Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.

Description: Munich American's annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Statistical Research Committee of the Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: The main purpose of “excess reinsurance” was to enable the direct writer to retain as much face amount as it could justify and merely cede the amounts which it felt was excessive relative to its surplus, earnings or other financial criteria.

Description: Feature article discussing a survey about the extent to which the buyers of reinsurance are concerned about reinsurance capacity and the concentration of risk on their own books and on the books of reinsurers.

Description: September 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: This article discuses areas to be considered in setting a retention limit: 1. Volume reinsured 2. Cost of reinsurance 3. Administrative cost 4. Recapture provisions 5. Surplus impact 6. Earnings stability 7. Psychological impact

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 May 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses regulations - unisex, privacy and anti-discrimination - lifestyle impact and reinsurance environment.