Description: Historically low interest rates, historically high equity market volatility and ever increasing life spans have made pension funding a hot topic. Financing the lifestyles of the superannuated through steadily improving investment performance is no longer a given. Market realities and stricter regulatory funding requirements are forcing plan sponsors to reduce overly optimistic assumptions about how well their investments will perform and increase assumptions about how long they will have to last. A growing number of well-known corporations are looking for help in trying to make the math work. This article discusses the opportunities for all who want to take on longevity risk.

Description: This article is based on a recent high face amount mortality study completed for the SOA. The data was derived from the Milliman Industry Mortality Study and Analysis (MIMSA), a recent comprehensive life insurance industry study of mortality and lapse. There were a number of interesting findings in the high face amount study, several of which are discussed in this article.

Description: brief discussion on Solvency II and accounting regimes, and update on Reinsurance Section activity.

Description: Interview with Jack Lay, CFO of Reinsurance Group of America. Mr. Lay will discuss his almost two decades of experience at RGA, offering his opinions on the future of the U.S. and international life reinsurance market.

Description: Full Issue of The Reinsurance October 2013, Issue 77.

Description: A discussion of the Reinsurance Section survey that went out, what the RSC has done over the past year, and what we'll be doing going forward.

Description: A description of features designed to alter a conventional reinsurance treaty structure into one where the reinsured accepts more risk for excess claim in return for more benefits of favorable experience.

Description: Summary of Reinsurance Section Council planned activity for 2015. Goal to inform Readers of the sections activities and upcoming educational opportunities.

Description: A summary of a recent U.S. District Court decision regarding the applicability of the Federal Excise Tax (FET) on foreign-to-foreign retrocessions.

Description: In the year’s first issue of Reinsurance News I talked a bit about what the Reinsurance Section Council had planned for 2015.