Description: A tremendous amount of work goes into each issue of the Reinsurance News. At this year’s SOA Spring Meeting in New Orleans, we spent some time reviewing the strategy for the newsletters, both print and electronic, and identifying topic areas that would be of interest to section members. The section publishes an electronic newsletter, Re-News! on a timely basis as events or news items need to be distributed. The print newsletter will continue to be distributed twice a year.

Description: This article provides a review of the topics discussed at Refocus 2008.

Description: The transition to an open reinsurance market was made possible by a new regulatory environment effective 2007. The author believes Rio de Janeiro is the best location for entering reinsurance companies to establish their headquarters.

Description: Feature article discussing the purpose of the SOA’s Reinsurance Section’s LEARN initiative.

Description: Preview of sessions Reinsurance Section is sponsoring at 2014 Annual meeting.

Description: This article enumerates many important considerations for a managing general underwriter(MGU) desiring to contract with an insurance carrier to issue and service provider excess of loss policies covering catastrophic medical risks assumed by accountable care organizations (ACOs).

Description: A discussion of the reasons behind the existence of offshore reinsurance companies in the Caribbean and the life styles of ex-pat actuaries working there.

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. The ordinary numbers are further subdivided into: recurring reinsurance1—conventional reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in the year in which it was reinsured portfolio reinsurance—reinsurance covering an insurance policy with an issue date in a year prior to the year in which it was reinsured, or financial reinsurance, and retrocession reinsurance—reinsurance not directly written by the ceding company. Complete survey results are available from the authors upon request. These results may also be obtained at Munich American’s Web site at www.marclife.com search Research.

Description: In North America, the proportion of elderly persons now in the population is about 13 percent and is expected to rise to 20 percent by the year 2030. Insurers face a new wave of insurance candidates over ages 65, 70 and 75 with risk assessment challenges in underwriting the health of old age risks.

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