Description: The goals of this paper are to discuss early risk management tools, to discuss the development of insurance, particularly marine insurance and fire insurance, and to discuss the origin and evolution of reinsurance.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999. Panelists discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of reinsurance used as a financing medium.

Description: Feature article discussing the major issues multinational reinsurers face in Brazil.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about how rating agencies think about reinsurance. Topics discussed: 1. How do various rating agencies view reinsurance? 2. How do new RBC standards impact rating agencies' view regarding reinsurance? 3. To what extent do ceding companies factor in rating agency concerns in their reinsurance decision making?

Description: “Getting to Woe Some” is a thought-provoking title for Rick Flaspöhler’s recent presentation to the ACLI Reinsurance Executive Round Table in March 2005. Flaspöhler presented the high-level findings of the biennial reinsurance survey, and in his words this industry has gone from “bad to worse.” The reinsurance industry now finds itself in a unique and difficult situation that will require dramatic steps to improve things going forward.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reinsurance including the effects of TEFRA on reinsurance tax planning, a picture of the reinsurance market over the last 10 years and surplus relief.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting features a debate over the question of whether the typical wording in a YRT reinsurance treaty allows a reinsurer to raise their rates or not.

Description: This session discussion is about the state of the U.S. reinsurance marketplace as viewed by foreign reinsurers and consultants. Panel members will provide insight on the willingness of foreign companies to assume risks from the U.S. marketplace and key factors that enter into this decision. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: In session 28TS of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss issues related to retention limits for individual life and disability income DI reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: The article was written to address a concern that the author had that reinsurance considerations were being relegated to the back of the product development cycle. He was concerned that reinsurance input on benefit design, underwriting and pricing was not getting into the process. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.