Description: This article looks at stochastic techniques actuaries can use to quantify the non-market risks in insurance products and how stochastic techniques can be used in the evaluation of reinsurance arrangements.

Description: This article reports on the latest annual survey about the relationship between reinsurers and their cedant clients. Some improvement was seen in 2011 from both actuaries and underwriters.

Description: Historically low interest rates, historically high equity market volatility and ever increasing life spans have made pension funding a hot topic. Financing the lifestyles of the superannuated through steadily improving investment performance is no longer a given. Market realities and stricter regulatory funding requirements are forcing plan sponsors to reduce overly optimistic assumptions about how well their investments will perform and increase assumptions about how long they will have to last. A growing number of well-known corporations are looking for help in trying to make the math work. This article discusses the opportunities for all who want to take on longevity risk.

Description: Interview with Jack Lay, CFO of Reinsurance Group of America. Mr. Lay will discuss his almost two decades of experience at RGA, offering his opinions on the future of the U.S. and international life reinsurance market.

Description: A discussion of the Reinsurance Section survey that went out, what the RSC has done over the past year, and what we'll be doing going forward.

Description: In the year’s first issue of Reinsurance News I talked a bit about what the Reinsurance Section Council had planned for 2015.

Description: This article summarizes the Reinsurance Section's recent research efforts.

Description: An overview of reinsurance training class provided to the Bermuda Monetary Authority (Authority) and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Central Bank) covering all aspects of reinsurance. Article also provides an overview of initiatives that the two regulators (Authority and Central Bank) are involved with.

Description: description of theme of the 2017 Canadian Reinsurance Conference

Description: A discussion about the effects of living to 100 on the insurance industry.