Description: This article discuses areas to be considered in setting a retention limit: 1. Volume reinsured 2. Cost of reinsurance 3. Administrative cost 4. Recapture provisions 5. Surplus impact 6. Earnings stability 7. Psychological impact

Description: The second of two parts of a roundtable discussion, by conference call, on the state of life reinsurance today in North America. This part focused more on emerging types of capital approaches to life reinsurance.

Description: Two previous issues of The Actuary reported on panel discussions, in two parts, about life reinsurance from the perspective of the reinsurers. This is the first of two parts on life reinsurance from the perspective of the ceding companies.

Description: The first of two parts of a roundtable discussion, by conference call, on the state of life reinsurance today in North America.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 6. In this article the author shares her ideas about the challenges we face as buyers and sellers of life reinsurance, and she describes some activities of the Reinsurance Section which address these challenges.

Description: The Brazilian market is presently the largest life market in Latin America, so the recent news regarding the abolishment of the reinsurance monopoly there will certainly place Brazil on the radar screens of all major life reinsurers. The article describes the impact on the Brazilian lfe insurance market and the international reinsurance market.