Description: This article explores why life insurance sales have not increased dramatically during the worst pandemic in 100 years, and what affect this is having on the reinsurance industry.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting features a debate over the question of whether the typical wording in a YRT reinsurance treaty allows a reinsurer to raise their rates or not.

Description: Can immigration in Europe actually help to mitigate the looming pension crisis.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the factors to review in re-pricing life products, insurers' methods for monitoring in-force business, and the importance of re-pricing in-force business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Feature article describing the benefits of attending the ReFocus meeting.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance News, May 2006, Issue No. 57.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This debate centers around what the reinsurance company will look like ten years from now. Discusses the role of traditional reinsurance and assumption reinsurance, effects of Guideline XXX and Regulation 147, effect of improved underwriting, and company structures.

Description: The author explores reasons why blocks of business may become legacy blocks and discusses ways to decrease the likelihood of legacy blocks in the future.

Description: Chairman’s letter comparing risk management profile of the games of Craps and Life Settlements

Description: Obesity is poised to overtake smoking as the leading preventable cause of death. What parallels can be drawn between public and reinsurance industry responses to these two lifestyle choices? Swiss Re investigates.