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?

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004. Arguments regarding the rights to deny reinsurance claims are presented by a representative of both a direct writer and a reinsurer.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session addressed the consolidation in the industry and the associated impact on the relationship between the ceding company and its reinsurers.

Description: This seminar focuses on the nonactuarial features of a reinsurance agreement, including underwriting, administrations, claims and audit.

Description: Panelists in this session 27TS of the Montreal Spring Meeting discuss the basic fundamentals of life reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses regulations - unisex, privacy and anti-discrimination - lifestyle impact and reinsurance environment.

Description: This session from the 1995 Spring Meeting covers the design and development issues of 'Last to Die' policies, the applicability of reinsurance, capacity problems, and theoretical versus practical pricing considerations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session on term insurance covered the general term insurance marketplace, return of premium term, and securitization and how that has impacted the term marketplace.

Description: The panel examined the trend of a large proportion of new and in-force business being ceded by direct-writing companies into the reinsurance marketplace. Questions addressed: 1. Is there a difference of opinion on mortality assumptions between the reinsurer and the direct writer? If so, who's right? 2. If the reinsurer is right, what are the implications to the direct writer? 3. If the direct writer is right, what are the implications to the reinsurer? 4. Are there other driving forces behind the large amounts being ceded?

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss incorporating reinsurance costs into the pricing of their retail products. Panelists also discuss the different effects of various reinsurance arrangements.