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: Feature article discussing that as financial markets have rumbled and cession rates have fallen, life reinsurers have been focused on pricing stability.

Description: Latest summary of LEARN presentations to regulators about reinsurance

Description: Discussion of China’s reinsurance industry.

Description: This article talks about ASOP No. 11, The Treatment of Reinsurance Transactions Reflecting Life or Health Insurance Risks in Financial Statements. Section 3.5, Additional Liabilities.

Description: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services’ stable outlook on the U.S. life reinsurance sector reflects improved new business profits and improving availability of capital at low cost through securitization and other markets. Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: Read about the LEARN program and it's expansion.

Description: Discussion of overseas activity in US life mortality reinsurance market.

Description: This article provides an update on the Life Treaty Project. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.