Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 1C: Earnings Pressure Impact on Annuity Product Development and the Insurance-Linked Securities Market

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 8E: Insurance M&A Valuation Methodologies and Considerations 9.1.21 Recording

Description: A jurisdiction’s regulatory regime can make some insurance products capital intensive to write. This can increase incentives for insurers to enter into risk transfer arrangements, such as reinsurance, to support their business and growth objectives.

Description: Reinsurance can be used as a tool to improve profitability and competitiveness on in force and new business for companies. Emerging reinsurance solutions will help organizations better manage their capital in different ways. During this webcast, the following solutions will be covered: Use of reinsurance to manage and improve capital and profitability Turning spread-based business into fee-based business Strategic use of affiliate and sidecar reinsurance

Description: The Life Meeting, is the result of combining the Life & Annuity Symposium (LAS) and the Valuation Actuarial Symposium (ValAct). The Life Meeting will offer sessions specific to pricing and valuation as well as sessions on emerging issues relevant to both groups. These common themes include InsurTech, diversity, accounting change and the current economic environment.

Description: Articles on IRS private letter rulings on combination products, IRS treatment of reinsurance under section 845, and IRS waivers for failed contracts under section 7702.

Description: In the past decade, U.S. life and annuity insurance companies’ utilization of asset-intensive reinsurance internal reinsurance has grown significantly. Many reinsurers and insurers have set up entities or affiliates in Cayman, with many more in the pipeline. Here we will discuss Cayman’s reinsurance market growth momentum, and the main benefits that Cayman offers.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers annuity reinsurance, specifically quota-share coinsurance, It addresses why companies buy annuity reinsurance, what risks are transferred, investment strategies and factors to consider when choosing a reinurance partner. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Reinsurance has become more frequently used in the annuity market along with large M&A transactions over the past few years. Discuss the market forces and the impact to the product development and pricing. By attending the session, you will: Understand the benefits of reinsuring annuities and the types of reinsurance used for annuities.

Description: Join a discussion on the tax implications for direct writers ceding annuity blocks for both onshore and offshore reinsurance arrangements. Get an introduction to the tax consequences of the risk transfer of annuity features and guarantees to reinsurers to reinsurers that are U.S.-based and not U.S. domiciled.