Description: Underwriting specialty risks in life insurance can be challenging, but due diligence is at the core of what allows us to make the best and most informed decision.

Description: Highlights of the 1999 Manulife/SOA annual large amount/older age mortality study

Description: Feature article discussing a survey about the extent to which the buyers of reinsurance are concerned about reinsurance capacity and the concentration of risk on their own books and on the books of reinsurers.

Description: Feature article discussing what’s to transpire at the upcoming Canadian reinsurers industry meeting.

Description: Feature article focuses on the regulators who determine risk-based capital or RBC standards applicable to health plans.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: This article describes the common uses , reinsurance structures , advantages , and risk- based capital repercussions of utilizing a captive to accept health care risks .

Description: As IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts casts its net wide, reinsurers find themselves sailing toward new horizons of financial reporting. The transition to IFRS 17 is not just a regulatory compliance exercise but a transformational journey that reshapes the financial reporting landscape for reinsurers. The enhanced disclosure requirements, the granular contract-level accounting, and the measurement consistency across different reinsurance contracts promise to unveil a clearer financial picture. Yet, these new reporting waters could be choppy, demanding a sturdy understanding and application of IFRS 17's principles. This article describes benchmarking of IFRS 17 information provided at HY 2023 for four reinsurers.

Description: In this article, the author provides an update, as of April 2023, on the Reinsurance Section’s sponsored research in process and studies recently completed.

Description: Life Reinsurance Data from the Munich American Survey by James L. Sweeney and David M. Bruggeman Reinsurance Section News, August 1998, Issue No. 44.