Description: Insurance companies significantly expanded their use of life reinsurance throughout the late '90s and early '00s. This has meant that volumes being ceded to the reinsurance market have continued to expand after a brief respite in 2001 through quota share opportunities with direct insurers keeping only a portion of their published retention.

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

Description: In October 2011, a research report was released jointly by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Research, the Smaller Insurance Company Section and the Reinsurance Section regarding the challenges encountered by smaller insurers in obtaining life reinsurance. This article summarizes the findings of that research report.

Description: November 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about how reinsurers are adapting to market changes. Topics included: 1. How reinsurers are adapting to changes driving direct writers. 2. Is gIobalization of reinsurance having a major effect? 3. In what ways has the reinsurance industry changed over the years and in what ways has it not changed?

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 6. In this article the author shares her ideas about the challenges we face as buyers and sellers of life reinsurance, and she describes some activities of the Reinsurance Section which address these challenges.

Description: A discussion of the opportunities opening up for reinsurance providers in Brazil

Description: This article discusses reserving issues for life insurance products with limited level premium guarantees or no-lapse guarantees, and capital markets solutions as an alternative to traditional reinsurance for relief from redundant reserve strain.

Description: This article discusses how understanding the drivers of mortality and morbidity is essential for identifying and developing suitable business opportunities.

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.