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  • A.M. Best U.S. Life Reinsurance – Market Review Consolidation Brings Rational Pricing but Greater Competition
    of factors. The decline may be attributable to direct writers’ stronger balance sheets and excess capital ... credit markets, all of which have enabled the life direct market to fund greater retention levels. There ...

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    • Authors: Stephen Irwin
    • Date: Dec 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Smaller Life Insurance Companies and Smaller Life Reinsurers: The Partnership Solution
    near future. For small life insurance companies (direct writers) the impact of fewer life reinsurance ... reasons. Unlike their larger sized brethren, smaller direct writers need reinsurance to make many of their ...

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    • Authors: Jay Jaffe
    • Date: Nov 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • A New Look at Reinsurers and Term
    Smaller Insurance Company Section Newsletter Direct writers have increasingly faced a“hardening” market ... has created an unprecedented environment between direct writers and reinsurers. At the SOA meeting in October ...

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    • Authors: W Howell Pugh
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • The Smaller Company Reinsurance Issue
    The Smaller Company Reinsurance Issue Discusses the competitive disadvantage for smaller life ... just as important to a reinsurer as it is for a direct insurer to maintain a minimum policy size on the ...

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    • Authors: Clark Himmelberger
    • Date: Nov 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance