Description: This is an article on avian flu and reinsurance as it relates to smaller insurance companies.

Description: This article discusses current trends in the life reinsurance market, including pricing, volume of business reinsured, changes in reinsured business, capital management solutions, potential regulatory developments, and the overall outlook for the life reinsurance market. Reprinted with Permission from Reinsurance News, February 2008

Description: This research scorecard will keep section members informed about research projects sponsored or co-sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: The September 2013 issue of the Financial Reporting Section’s newsletter, The Financial Reporter.

Description: Letter from the chairperson of the Financial Reporting section describing the changes that are in store for the financial reporting industry and the SOA’s Financial Reporting section.

Description: Feature article discussing a recent Peak Re survey about the growth of Asia's life insurance market.

Description: Tax considerations in structuring and pricing long-term care transactions. Includes consideration around the form of reinsurance and the unified loss rules applicable to stock transactions where they is a bargain purchase (also known as a tax basis step-down)

Description: This article makes reference to a session on financial reinsurance at the 2007 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, noting that the speakers at the meeting made a case that with respect to life reinsurance, “the rating agencies should have a more positive view of financial reinsurance,” and clarified that the recent problems arose on the property-casualty side, where financial reinsurance was used to smooth earnings.

Description: Claims Provisions of a reinsurance agreement.