Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session focused on different uses of reinsurance. Topics included: • Cost of capital versus debt, in the form of surplus notes. • Reinsurance and the joint venture. • Structuring reinsurance for the audience of the 1990s, including rating agencies and regulators.

Description: This session discussion is panelists debating conflicting proposals as to how best to overhaul regulations governing reserve credits for reinsurance. Between the debate and other presentations, the panelists will address the following subjects and current issues, reinsurance resere credits, mirror reserving, proposed changes to the NAIC model law on reinsurance reserve credits, and reserve credits involving unauthorized reinsurers. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: Feature article discussing the ReFocus 2011 meeting. Attendees enjoyed a program that centered its theme on the industry’s renewed resolve emerging from one of the worst financial crises ever experienced in the United States

Description: This business meeting of the Reinsurance Section discussed: Program Committee Newsletter Education Committee Actuarial Studies Committee Model Treaty Language Committee Standardized Reinsurance Bulk Reports Section Membership Section Board Membership. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B in Toronto

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers surplus management strategies and addresses the topics of risk-based capital RBC, reinsurance, growth and profitability, cost of capital, and required surplus. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This document summarizes a meeting of the Reinsurance Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting consisted of a discussion related to the role and purpose of the section, a discussion of problems and pitfalls related to reinsurance treaties, and discussions related to choosing a reinsurer.

Description: Panelists stage a mock arbitration to resolve a problem of current interest between a ceding company and its reinsurer. The purpose of this session is to demonstrate how an arbitration proceeding may play out, and what companies can do to resolve – or even avoid – a dispute prior to going to arbitration. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 42TS of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion focuses on forces driving consolidation and the advantages that small companies have to counter those forces.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews NAIC regulation of reinsurance, problems of reinsurance coverage on internal replacements and rewrites, a short Reinsurance Section business report and other current topics. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists, noting that “joint ventures are becoming more and more common as companies enter the increasingly competitive marketplace of the 1990s,” explore reasons to use joint ventures and how reinsurance accomplishes desired goals, and discuss advantages over other possible solutions. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.