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Description: With recent and continuing changes in regulatory requirements under VM-20, new accounting standards under GAAP LDTI/IFRS 17, expansion of accelerated underwriting programs and digital distribution, and the impact of COVID-19, the needs and challenges being faced by life insurance companies are greater and more varied than ever. Both under favorable and stressed conditions, companies heavily rely on reinsurance and the market has seen several major transactions enacted in this space over recent months. Reinsurance offers a wider variety of opportunities for companies to manage their balance sheets and increase their return on capital. Find out how reinsurance can be utilized to address the challenges associated with earnings growth and volatility, risk management, capital allocation efficiency, and product performance optimization. Moreover, upon enacting a transaction, ensuring the implementation of effective reinsurance operations is crucial to avoid operational inefficiencies and monitor the transaction's performance. Understanding the potential opportunities and common pitfalls in the reinsurance processes is vital for capturing the full value of reinsurance. By attending the session, you will be able to understand the various challenges being faced by direct writing companies today and where reinsurance can be leveraged to improve capital and tax position, as well as achieving the optimal balance of risk appetite and underwriting profit. Additionally, the presentation will provide real life case studies on how innovation and operational excellence can improve earnings by reducing costs related to inefficiencies, reducing process timing, improving controls, and reducing reinsurance leakage.

Description: The document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a research study on offshore life and annuity jurisdictions' reinsurance landscapes, commissioned by the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section. It outlines the background, purpose, research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, and other related information.

Description: Both under favorable and stressed conditions, companies heavily rely on reinsurance and the market has seen a number of major transactions enacted in this space over recent months. Reinsurance offers a wider variety of opportunities in order to manage stressed balance sheets and enhance return on capital, upon which insurers must continually reflect in order to capture all the potential value. For example, captive reinsurance, which offers expense or cost reduction advantages in addition to risk management and control, is becoming more widespread as more U.S. jurisdictions allow parents companies to benefit from these captive formations. Upon enacting a transaction, ensuring the implementation of effective reinsurance operations is crucial in order to avoid operational inefficiencies and monitor the transaction's performance. Understanding the potential opportunities and common pitfalls in reinsurance processes is vital for capturing the full value of reinsurance. By attending the session, you will: Explore all the options available where reinsurance can be leveraged to improve capital and tax position, as well as achieving the optimal balance of risk appetite and underwriting profit. Furthermore, the presentation will provide real life case studies on how innovation and operational excellence can improve earnings by reducing costs related to inefficiencies, reducing process timing, improving controls, and reducing reinsurance leakage.

Description: Reinsurance transactions have become increasingly common in the annuity market as means to reduce risk, improve pricing, release capital, or exit a line of business. The market has become increasingly complex as it has grown. Insurance carriers and reinsurance providers now need to keep up with a growing range of reinsurance structures to manage their business efficiently. This session will detail the different types of annuity reinsurance transactions currently being executed in the market, the costs and benefits of different approaches, and recent trends in reinsurance structuring. At the conclusion of the session, you will understand the basics of how annuity reinsurance is being used in the market today as well as how to understand and evaluate potential reinsurance transactions.