Description: Chairperson’s column discussing systemic risk.

Description: The March 2013 issue of Reinsurance News

Description: The excess capacity that has triggered structural reinsurance market shifts has companies focusing on uninsured and underinsured exposures to tackle the issue.

Description: Q&A with President Life & Health US. Swiss Re. Neil Sprackling.

Description: Characteristics of natural catastrophes and management thereof.

Description: Overview of the diverse Asia markets and four key themes:Rapid pace of product development, innovative underwriting solutions, Wellness, the rise of insurtech.

Description: Jeff Poulin is the CEO of Canada Life Re, a division of Great West Life Assurance Company. He was appointed CEO in May 2017, but he has been working for the reinsurance company since 1991.

Description: This article provides an update, as of July 2020, on the Reinsurance Section’s sponsored research in process and studies recently completed.

Description: This presentation discusses a process for determining the minimum reinsurance retention level consistent with defined parameters. The conclusions reached were: 1. Under PDS dependence, optimal reinsurance strategy is multivariate stop loss form. 2. Explicit solutions could be derived in certain bivariate model. 3. Binding and unbinding constraints are equivalent. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2012, Vol. 1.

Description: In calculations involving the distribution of total claims in a risk theory setting, several authors have found it desirable to approximate a risk-theoretic distribution by use of the incomplete gamma function. A recent paper evaluated an excess loss ratio premium by use of a gamma distribution whose first and second moments agreed with those of the risk-theoretic loss distribution. A discussion of that paper pointed out that a translated gamma distribution allowed one to make the approximate distribution agree with the risk-theoretic distribution as far as the first three moments are concerned. The method presented in this paper allows one to make as many moments of the approximate distribution as desired agree with those of the risk-theoretic loss distribution. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18, Pt. 1, No. 52.