Description: For over a decade, life insurers have been challenged by a low interest rate environment, making it difficult to find investments with adequate yield, manage corporate spreads, and offer competitive products to consumers. While interest rates are still low compared to the early 2000’s, volatility in rates over the past year, during which the 10-year U.S. Treasury rate has increased by nearly 100 basis points, could indicate a longer-term trend of rising rates. What would a rising rate environment imply for life insurance writers? Insurers able to react to interest rate changes with agility can remain relevant in an evolving economy, protecting themselves and their policyholders. This article addresses risks and considerations faced by insurers with respect to in-force retention, pricing and product mix, and reinsurance and mergers & acquisitions.

Description: An in-depth discussion of a research project, sponsored by the Committee on Life Insurance Research, the Smaller Insurance Company Section and the Reinsurance Section, on the topic of access to reinsurance.

Description: Panel discussion focused on the Effective Use of Capital. Topics included: 1. Definition of capital 2. Appropriate level of capital and surplus in a life insurance company 3. Alternatives for deploying capital 4. Returns a life company should demand on invested capital 5. How much a company should charge for lending its capital in reinsurance transactions

Description: In this session 116 PD of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discusses factors which led to the development of alternative risk transfer transactions in the property and casualty markets, and review techniques used to transfer and trade insurance risks within the capital markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: The Bermuda International Life and Annuity Conference highlights Bermuda’s enhanced capital and solvency framework, and growing long-term (re)insurance sector.

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

Description: Departing chairman’s column recapping past accomplishments and describing future section initiatives.

Description: Summary of upcoming seminar, scheduled for August 14-15, 2017.

Description: The forces of today—expanding technology, tightening capital, regulatory rumblings, mergers and acquisitions—will affect the focus of tomorrow. If we wish to win the day, one to prosper in a changing environment, we need to begin preparing ourselves now for the challenges that lie ahead.