Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 3PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists, including an attorney, a rating agency representative, and a state examiner, discuss regulatory and accounting issues relating to reinsurance, focusing on statutory accounting. They discuss risk transfer and other requirements, which if not met can cause the loss of reinsurance credit, how rating agencies evaluate the quality of reinsurance, what state examiners look for when reviewing reserve credits, how to perform due diligence on reinsurers, how to structure transactions to provide maximum security, and special issues associated with international reinsurance.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting presents the issues in developing a reinsurance arrangement for fixed annuity products including rate crediting strategies, reinsurer solvency risk, fund management and regulatory issues. Also included is reinsurance of interest sensitive products, variable life and annuity and terminal funding. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at an overview of developments in 1993 including a regulator's viewpoint of various valuation actuary issues, an update on the valuation actuary and health insurance, current developments in reinsurance that should be considered in the valuation process and a sample actuarial opinion and memorandum.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses new state and NAIC regulation of surplus relief reinsurance, GAAP treatment of reinsurance, and taxation of reinsurance under Section 845 of the 1984 Tax Law.