Description: The panel examined the trend of a large proportion of new and in-force business being ceded by direct-writing companies into the reinsurance marketplace. Questions addressed: 1. Is there a difference of opinion on mortality assumptions between the reinsurer and the direct writer? If so, who's right? 2. If the reinsurer is right, what are the implications to the direct writer? 3. If the direct writer is right, what are the implications to the reinsurer? 4. Are there other driving forces behind the large amounts being ceded?

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss incorporating reinsurance costs into the pricing of their retail products. Panelists also discuss the different effects of various reinsurance arrangements.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Washington D.C. Meeting covers recent issues surrounding quota share reinsurance, including limits in the capital market, XXX reserves, letter of credit funding and costs, recapture provisions and arbitration. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 3pd.

Description: A panel of reinsurers at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discusses recent issues surrounding quota share reinsurance, including limits in the capital market, XXX reserves, letter of credit funding and costs, recapture provisions and arbitration.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the current state of the Group Life product space.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session on term insurance covered the general term insurance marketplace, return of premium term, and securitization and how that has impacted the term marketplace.

Description: This session discussion is about persistency influence the profitability of individual life reinsurance. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses jumbo risks, substandard cases, time service, and additional requirements, how to include the agent in the reinsurance process, and codes of professional ethics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Discusses: [1] the term-insurance marketplace and the reinsurance thereon, both past and present, [2] the changing reinsurer-client relationship, [3] the evolving reinsurance and direct marketplaces, and [4] the interrelationships between those two marketplaces. Significant discussion about AIDS risks in Q&A. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about reinsurance accounting for life and health insurers. It covers both statutory developments and GAAP developments. Topics included: 1. NAIC model regulation and some of the specific state issues. 2. FAS 113, reinsurance accounting under GAAP accounting principles. 3. Fronting issues. 4. Disclosure reporting. 5. The role of reinsurance as one of several financial and capital management solutions available to insurance companies. 6. Business applications that flow out of the current accounting developments