Description: This article discusses how catastrophe risk poses a unique challenge for smaller life insurers.

Description: Equity-Based Insurance Guarantee Webcast Series

Description: Reinsurance can be used as a tool to improve profitability and competitiveness on in force and new business for companies. Emerging reinsurance solutions will help organizations better manage their capital in different ways. During this webcast, the following solutions will be covered: Use of reinsurance to manage and improve capital and profitability Turning spread-based business into fee-based business Strategic use of affiliate and sidecar reinsurance

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: There are many underwriting issues being discussed in states that challenge how information is used in the underwriting process. Learn more about a variety of rules and regulations, including Colorado's proposed regulation requiring a governance and risk management framework for life insurance carriers' use of external consumer data and information sources, as well as algorithms and predictive models using such data. Recent proposals are more far-reaching than existing requirements in states that have put up guardrails for the use of new data sets and algorithms, especially for underwriting. Listen in as experts discuss the potential issues and implications of this and other proposed regulations.

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

Description: Join us for a lively discussion on how accelerated underwriting (AU) practices have evolved over time and specifically because of COVID-19.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting strengths and weaknesses and evaluating accuracy.

Description: The days of reinsurance treaties bound by a handshake are long gone. Treaties have evolved into complex legal documents. The session will use a recently released study on recapture provisions as a starting point and will expand the discussion to other key treaty provisions. The focus will be on understanding the intentions, concerns and relative positions of both the direct company and the reinsurer so that a mutually beneficial compromise can be explored.

Description: Five industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the life insurance and life reinsurance industry were honored with the Insurance Legends award at ReFocus 2008, the premier conference for reinsurance industry professionals.