Description: Announcement of the best article published in the Reinsurance News in 2021.

Description: The focus of this article is to provide background to actuaries on the updates in the employer stop loss medical insurance market including underwriting and pricing trends.

Description: As IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts casts its net wide, reinsurers find themselves sailing toward new horizons of financial reporting. The transition to IFRS 17 is not just a regulatory compliance exercise but a transformational journey that reshapes the financial reporting landscape for reinsurers. The enhanced disclosure requirements, the granular contract-level accounting, and the measurement consistency across different reinsurance contracts promise to unveil a clearer financial picture. Yet, these new reporting waters could be choppy, demanding a sturdy understanding and application of IFRS 17's principles. This article describes benchmarking of IFRS 17 information provided at HY 2023 for four reinsurers.

Description: A comparison of fully insured medical insurance to two self- funding alternatives , specific and aggregate and level funding .

Description: This article discusses the whys and hows of managing risk and capital at the enterprise level.

Description: With the medical insurance market experiencing health care inflation of 10 to 13 percent and medical costs averaging above $8,000 per year per employee less for single employees and more for employees with families, employers are looking at alternative options. Politicians and regulators are as well.

Description: This article describes Solvency II, an overhaul of the European regulatory regime, and discusses the implications for reinsurers.

Description: First dollar carriers, stop loss carriers, and reinsurers play a different role in reimbursing healthcare claims. This article explores the reinsurer's role in reimbursing COVID-19 related claims.

Description: Highlights of the 1999 Manulife/SOA annual large amount/older age mortality study

Description: Feature article discussing the current state of reinsurance for the variable annuity market.