Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session focused on the advantages and practical applications of offshore reinsurance. Topics included: · Types of reinsurance · Brief history of the development of the offshore market · Tax and regulatory advantages · Number of reinsurers and size of market · Risks that offshore reinsurance can best address · Financial reinsurance arrangements · Impact of Regulation XXX on demand and price · Regulatory considerations · Details of the use of letters of credit

Description: Panelists discuss Lloyd's of London, its past difficulties, and its future role in the reinsurance market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed international reinsurance opportunities, what can be learned from the casualty industry - where international reinsurance is commonplace, and a discussion of such issues as: Profit potential, Regulatory concerns, Taxation, Security, Costs.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session on international reinsurance covers the following topics: • Overview of the extent and form of international reinsurance activity. • Reporting, regulatory issues, remittance of payments, and currency exposure. • Accepting reinsurance of business issued in other countries from a US perspective. • Underwriting standards - US versus foreign countries. • Management of foreign risks from a US perspective.

Description: This session discussion is about the state of the U.S. reinsurance marketplace as viewed by foreign reinsurers and consultants. Panel members will provide insight on the willingness of foreign companies to assume risks from the U.S. marketplace and key factors that enter into this decision. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about how reinsurers are adapting to market changes. Topics included: 1. How reinsurers are adapting to changes driving direct writers. 2. Is gIobalization of reinsurance having a major effect? 3. In what ways has the reinsurance industry changed over the years and in what ways has it not changed?