Description: This reinsurance refresh session will review different types of reinsurance, main reinsurance regulations and resources, key reinsurance treaty provisions, as well as recent developments in reinsurance. We will also introduce LEARN, an education initiative sponsored by the SOA Reinsurance Section to help improve communication with regulators.

Description: Attendees will learn about the risks and rewards of using reinsurance as part of their business strategy. Reinsurance can be used in multiple ways including optimizing value of inforce, supporting planned sales growth, improving ROE, satisfying regulatory requirements, transferring risk, etc. The structures and solutions can take many shapes in order meet companies’ strategic and financial goals. In this session, the presenters will explore the historical and current uses of reinsurance as risk management and value creation tool and discuss developments that may impact the future use of reinsurance.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the current state of the Group Life product space.

Description: Session 9 of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium is an open forum on reinsurance.

Description: With the IDI market consolidating, panelists at this session 47PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss significant considerations in selling or buying a block of IDI business, relative to reinsurance, valuation, tax, and regulatory issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss Lloyd's of London, its past difficulties, and its future role in the reinsurance market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: This presentation, session number 42TS, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. This teaching session discusses various nontraditional reinsurance solutions, along with their advantages and disadvantages, that are designed to address group insurance issues. Solutions include finite reinsurance, stop-loss, and surplus relief. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

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 1981 session focused on Reinsurance Trends. Questions included: i. Why the recent movement from YRT to Coinsurance? 2. Should a company use a bulk or self-administered system? 3. When is it advantageous to use Coinsurance or modified coinsurance on existing business for tax planning 4. Experimental Underwriting - what are the results? 5. Pricing assumptions - where have all the margins gone? 6. When can reinsurance pools be used effectively what are the pitfalls? 7. What's in the future? a. Use of telecommunications and computers to transfer the risks? b. Lower rates and less service? 8. How have changes in reinsurance pricing affected ceding company pricing?

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Utah Meeting reviews various aspects of bulk reinsurance or self-administered reinsurance treaties with respect to the nature of bulk reporting, when bulk is appropriate, actuarial certification and audits of reports, bulk reporting and universal life reinsurance and recommended control procedures. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2