Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session on term insurance covered the general term insurance marketplace, return of premium term, and securitization and how that has impacted the term marketplace.

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? 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 risk? b. Lower rates and less service? 8. How have changes in reinsurance pricing affected ceding company pricing?

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: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed topics of current interest in the United States and Canada from the perspective of the reinsurer and the ceding company: Update of AICPA activities, including AICPA audit guide, Current GAAP standards for reinsurance ceded and assumed, NAIC activities, Life insurance tax law.

Description: This session discussion is about recent insurance-department activity, current American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] issues, and insolvency issues pertaining to reinsurance. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Traditional reinsurers have become more conservative in recent years as the individual disability insurance industry continues to report poor financial results. Some reinsurers have exited the marketplace, while some others have raised rates, restricted certain coverages, tightened underwriting, and taken other actions to manage the risks. Thus, alternatives to traditional DI reinsurance are discussed.

Description: In session 28TS of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss issues related to retention limits for individual life and disability income DI reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This presentation, session number 102PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the popularity of such voluntary products as critical illness, group AD&D, and group long-term disability, and their implications for reinsurers. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Panel session exploring a variety of issues connected to long-term disability reserve buyouts, including: · Advantages and risks for buyers and sellers · Use of appropriate reserving assumptions · Possible financial structures for a buyout