Description: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ stable outlook on the U.S. life reinsurance sector reflects improved new business profits and improving availability of capital at low cost through securitization and other markets. Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: This annual survey, conducted by Munich American, is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section.

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: Book review of the latest edition (4th) of Life, Health, and Annuity Reinsurance by John Tiller, Jr and Denise Fagerberg Tiller

Description: An executive perspective on strategy and risk in reinsurance.

Description: This article explores the current market dynamics in the U.K. life reinsurance market and considers the sustainability of the current position.

Description: This article presents the author's views on how direct writers of term insurance should view and monitor their reinsurance.

Description: Discusses: [1] the term-insurance marketplace and the reinsurance thereon, both past and present, [2] the changing reinsurer-client relationship, [3] the evolving reinsurance and direct marketplaces, and [4] the interrelationships between those two marketplaces. Significant discussion about AIDS risks in Q&A. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: In May of 2006 the Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee of the SOA surveyed both reinsurers and direct companies about their practices with respect to making business decisions in the underwriting process. This article highlights the comparison of the results of the two surveys.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses jumbo risks, substandard cases, time service, and additional requirements, how to include the agent in the reinsurance process, and codes of professional ethics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.