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  • Results of the 2016 Life Reinsurance Survey
    these programs are relatively new to the market, direct writers have reached out to the reinsurance community ... increases in term and whole life sales. Comparing new direct life sales to recurring production shows an estimated ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Jul 2017
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
  • Life Reinsurance Data from the Munich American Survey
    recurring category is business assumed from the direct side of companies that also have a reinsurance ... when reinsurance pricing was very competitive and direct companies moved to first-dollar quota-share arrangements ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Aug 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Results of the 2012 SOA Life Reinsurance Survey
    experienced since 1995. Stable direct sales and a lower cession rate indicate direct writers continue to retain ... few items worth noting about this graph. While direct sales have been relatively flat through- out the ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Jul 2013
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Results of the 2011 Life Reinsurance Survey
    Hand” because reinsurers were heavily courting direct companies for additional business. “With a Little ... for the early-2000s when reinsurers helped out direct companies with capital strain/reserve relief brought ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Aug 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Life Reinsurance Data from The Munich American Survey
    support to the belief that, like U.S. direct writers, Canadian direct writers are reinsuring more business ... have recently increased their retention. Second, direct companies are, for capacity reasons, including ...

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    • Authors: James L Sweeney, David Bruggeman
    • Date: Sep 2001
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
  • Results of the 2013 SOA Life Reinsurance Survey
    After all, the economy was slowly coming back and direct life insurance sales had been stable the past few ... Holdings, for $1.8 billion. This is CPPIB’s first direct investment in the insurance sector. Annual Percentage ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Aug 2014
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Results of the 2014 SOA Life Reinsurance Survey
    recurring reinsurance over direct sales for that year. By face amount, 2014 direct sales were at their lowest ... lowest level since 2002. LIMRA estimates direct sales fell 2 percent in 2014 com- pared to 2013.1 This ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Life Reinsurance Data From the Munich American Survey
    life reinsurer, the other an acquisition of a direct life oper- ation. First, Scottish Re’s acquisition ... recurring category is business assumed from the direct side of companies that also have a reinsurance ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Life Reinsurance Data from the Munich American Survey
    recurring category is business assumed from the direct side of companies that also have a reinsurance ... 7 percent in 2007. If this trend continues and direct sales do not decrease in 2008, the U.S. recurring ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Aug 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Life Reinsurance Data from the 2010 Munich Re Survey
    reinsurers. The repricing effort prompted the direct writers to look at their own retention levels ... suspects include decreasing sales on the direct side and direct writers raising retention limits. One also ...

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    • Authors: David Bruggeman
    • Date: Nov 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance