Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about raising capital for mutual companies. Subjects discussed: 1. Access to capital markets. 2. Use of surplus debentures. 3. Demutualization. 4. Securitization. 5. Sale/leaseback of home office. 6. Sales of blocks of business. 7. Rating agency perspectives.

Description: Discusses the reinsurance arbitration process and then holds a mock arbitration hearing to illustrate the process. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

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 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: 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: An article in the form of a fictional letter to the editor and response dealing with the complexities of the current reinsurance market.

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: Panelists discuss: [1] relationships with your reinsurer, [2] reinsurance administration, [3] setting retentions, and [4] financial reinsurance and the regulator. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This article discusses the changes in the life reinsurance business over the last 45 years. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

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.