Description: Ceding companies must react appropriately to changes in the substandard reinsurance market to avoid losses. By using the substandard/insurance pricing algorithms presented in this paper, ceding companies may develop an effective placement method and thereby avoid potential future losses. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994 Vol. 2 .

Description: There is no right price for a piece of insurance. There is simply the transacted market price, which is high enough to bring forth sellers and low enough to induce buyers. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.