Description: Life Reinsurance Data from The Munich American Survey by James L. Sweeney and David M. Bruggeman from Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.

Description: Ten predictions for the future of reinsurance.

Description: The forces of today—expanding technology, tightening capital, regulatory rumblings, mergers and acquisitions—will affect the focus of tomorrow. If we wish to win the day, one to prosper in a changing environment, we need to begin preparing ourselves now for the challenges that lie ahead.

Description: Discussion of a Reinsurance Arbitration Survey covering the period 1998–2001 Also a discussion of the shrinking number of life reinsurance companies in the USA

Description: A discussion of some of the economic advantages of Offshore Life Reinsurance

Description: Munich American's annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Statistical Research Committee of the Reinsurance Section, covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.

Description: Insurance companies significantly expanded their use of life reinsurance throughout the late '90s and early '00s. This has meant that volumes being ceded to the reinsurance market have continued to expand after a brief respite in 2001 through quota share opportunities with direct insurers keeping only a portion of their published retention.

Description: The main purpose of “excess reinsurance” was to enable the direct writer to retain as much face amount as it could justify and merely cede the amounts which it felt was excessive relative to its surplus, earnings or other financial criteria.

Description: Chairperson's Corner from the March 2004 issue of Reinsurance News.

Description: In today’s competitive environment, there is an increasing focus on the process of selecting life reinsurers, largely as a result of two industry trends, namely consolidation and the amount of reinsurance ceded.