Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the December 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the March 2017 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: In an effort to build a bridge between epidemiological and actuarial modeling, this paper analyzes possible financial arrangements made against expenses resulted from medical treatments given to insured patients. Based on classical compartment models, the first part of this paper designs insurance policies for susceptible participants facing the risk of infection and formulates the financial obligations of both parties using actuarial methodology. For practical purposes, the second part employs a variety of numerical methods for calculating premiums and reserves. The last part illustrates the methods by designing insurance products for the Great Plague in Eyam and the SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.

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: Compares Term VM-20 modeled reserves at low credibility factors.

Description: A request for proposal from the Society of Actuaries for a project to receive, compile and analyze experience data of cancer claims costs from 2001 t0 2011.

Description: Discussion of FAS 133 Implementation Issue B36 relating to the implications for the financial reporting of modco and similar reinsurance treaties where the assuming company assumes some investment risk from assets still owned by the ceding company.

Description: Summary of the NAIC and SOA's PBR Survey.

Description: We suggest a new method of latent variable analysis and apply it for describing mortality changes in developed countries over the period of 1900--2014.