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

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

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: 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.

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

Description: In setting future mortality assumptions for pricing, the actuary needs to consider not only recent results and recent annualized mortality improvements, but also must look at the possible impact of possible shocks epidemics, wars, etc.

Description: Discussion about the challenges of teaching life reinsurance to non-life reinsurance practitioners and regulators based on the experiences of the author

Description: In the winning article in the International Section’s annual country feature article competition, the author recounts his experience of living in Zurich, Switzerland, and compares U.S. and Swiss cultural influences on health care.

Description: Why Should Life Insurers Care About Brexit?