Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, August 2003, Issue No. 52.

Description: Discussion of the upcoming reinsurance industry event: ReFocus 2010.

Description: Discussion about the challenges of teaching life reinsurance to non-life reinsurance practitioners and regulators based on the experiences of the author

Description: Life reinsurers have done a relatively good job in competing with banks for market share of structured solutions, yet one might conclude that life reinsurers have not done a good job competing with an even bigger and more powerful competitor- the client company’s own retention limit. This article addresses the question: Is there anything a life reinsurer can do to change its business model to serve the needs of a large-retention life insurance company?

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

Description: In setting future mortality assumptions for pricing, the actuary needs to consider not only recent results and recent annualized mortality improvements, but also must look at the possible impact of possible shocks epidemics, wars, etc.

Description: In session 83D of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the option of using mortality improvements in pricing of life insurance products as an Actuarial Standard of Practice ASOP. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Summary of the ReFocus Conference 2017 jointly sponsored by the ACLI and SOA.

Description: This article explores why life insurance sales have not increased dramatically during the worst pandemic in 100 years, and what affect this is having on the reinsurance industry.

Description: Discussion of the uses of reinsurance and the nature of the relationship between reinsurer and ceding company. The results of a reinsurance survey were discussed.