Description: This presentation discusses a process for determining the minimum reinsurance retention level consistent with defined parameters. The conclusions reached were: 1. Under PDS dependence, optimal reinsurance strategy is multivariate stop loss form. 2. Explicit solutions could be derived in certain bivariate model. 3. Binding and unbinding constraints are equivalent. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2012, Vol. 1.

Description: In the context of reinsurance, this paper addresses finding the quota share retention level and the retention limit, with a diffusion process being added to the claim process, that maximizes the adjustment coefficient in the Sparre Anderson model. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this paper provides a comprehensive introduction to nonproportional reinsurance and its application in life and health insurance, and employee benefit plans. The author defines the various types of reinsurance and notes that to date nonproportional reinsurance has not been widely used in the U.S. for life insurance, and explores areas for possible application. Theoretical aspects such as formulas for premium determination are also discussed.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘Introduction to Nonproportional Reinsurance,’ by Herbert L. Feay, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to the author’s paper, raising some questions, but generally finding the paper an excellent introduction to a complex and not well explored field, at least from the perspective of life actuaries. The author, in his reply to the discussion, emphasizes that the paper was meant as an introduction to stimulate further work in this field.