Description: A recap of the three-day seminar including the history of reinsurance, review of reinsurance company structures, and review of specialty products and hybrid reinsurance solutions.

Description: Benefits of attending the Symposium in building a knowledge framework on issues affecting longevity and older ages.

Description: reinsurance news March 2015, Issue 81

Description: Proactive identification and active risk management of policyholder behavior risks within annuity products.

Description: Actuaries often have to derive a mortality basis from the experience data of a portfolio. The most common application is for risk management, such as the annual valuation. However, it is also required for pricing block transfers, such as longevity swaps, reinsurance treaties and bulk annuities. In each case it is useful to know two things: (i) what uncertainty surrounds the mortality basis, and (ii) what financial impact that uncertainty has. Both of these questions come under the heading of mis-estimation risk, which is the subject of this article.

Description: Articles address why longevity risk is of interest to US life insurers but not necessarily a priority and what might happen that could change that perspective. It also presents attractive options for managing longevity risk. Provides real life scenarious of how a longevity swap works.

Description: The rapid pace of change within the reinsurance sector over the past few years has given way to the permutations of a “new reality” that is being shaped by abundant capacity from traditional and alternative sources.

Description: Interview with an industry leader.

Description: March 2016 Reinsurance