Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker

Description: This article discusses the closed nature of the Brazilian reinsurance market due to the IRB. The Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil is owned 50% by the 15 insurance companies that are licensed to do business in Brazil and 50% by the Government of Brazil, but the Government owns 100% of the voting shares. All reinsurance business must be transacted with and via the IRB. The process, opportunities and risks associated with this scheme are explored.

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

Description: Summary of the results of the 2011 Life Reinsurance Survey. Included are US and Canadian individual life results for recurring, portfolio and retrocession reinsurance.

Description: Life reinsurers have done a relatively good job in competing with banks for market share of structured solutions, yet one might conclude that life reinsurers have not done a good job competing with an even bigger and more powerful competitor- the client company’s own retention limit. This article addresses the question: Is there anything a life reinsurer can do to change its business model to serve the needs of a large-retention life insurance company?

Description: The Brazilian market is presently the largest life market in Latin America, so the recent news regarding the abolishment of the reinsurance monopoly there will certainly place Brazil on the radar screens of all major life reinsurers. The article describes the impact on the Brazilian lfe insurance market and the international reinsurance market.

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: The final results of the 2012 Society of Actuaries (SOA) Life Reinsurance Survey are now available. The survey captures individual and group life data from U.S. and Canadian life reinsurers. New Business production and in-force figures are reported with reinsurance broken into three categories: Recurring reinsurance; Portfolio reinsurance; and Retrocession reinsurance.

Description: This is an article about the “hardening” market for reinsurance on term and universal life with secondary guarantees. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.