Description: September 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: An update on HMO market trends and reinsurance products, and services supporting them.

Description: Highlights of the Actuary of the Future Section and the Product Development Section

Description: With the potential growth in the premium finance and life settlement industry, private equity and hedge funds are exploring ways to be involved in this market. With few organizations willing to enter the market offering reinsurance, risk management is being explored through alternative means such as the use of options. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: This article was written to increase the knowledge and insights of both the direct writer and reinsurer in optimizing the reinsurance negotiation process. It should help the reinsurer offer a more competitive quote and hence win a share in a reinsurance pool while simultaneously helping the direct writer obtain lower reinsurance costs helping their product pricing and bottom line.

Description: 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Reinsurance Conference. This one day industry meeting hosting delegates from North America and beyond will be held in Toronto on April 13, 2016 under the theme "ReDefining Leadership".

Description: This session is about regulatory constraints and the role the NAIC is playing to help facilitate 24-hour programs, plan design issues, the use of managed care, coverage as part of a workers' compensation plan versus coverage of health care outside of the workers' compensation system. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 9PD, from the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. A panel of reinsurance experts presents the benefits of reinsurance and how to leverage these benefits during the product development process. With respect to life insurance products, the discussion covers how reinsurers can help with pricing, product design, underwriting, and administration. The panelists also address annuities and international issues. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Over the years I have come to believe that the nature vs nurture debate is fundamentally flawed, in that it tends to exclude an increasingly important third influence: culture.