Description: Heatmaps are an effective tool for visualizing changes in cancer incidences over time in large datasets. They can show the impact of screening measures, particularly when targeting specific age groups, and reveal characteristics of individual cohorts.

Description: This article discusses the whys and hows of managing risk and capital at the enterprise level.

Description: What Is A Dollar Worth? (An Overview of Financial Reinsurance) by Mark Troutman from Reinsurance Section News, May 2001, Issue No. 48.

Description: Full version of Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.

Description: Discussion of overseas activity in US life mortality reinsurance market.

Description: Summary and discussion of the results of the 2002 Munich American annual survey on life reinsurance.

Description: A discussion of the recent announcement from FASB that certain reinsurance agreements, such as modified coinsurance arrangements, contain an embedded derivative that must be accounted for in accordance with FASB 133

Description: The purpose of this article is twofold. Number one, to estimate the growing level of statutory reserves that are being reinsured offshore, supported by Letters of Credit, as well as by assets held within a trust. Number two, to quantify the redundancy in the reserves due to the conservative nature of the required methodology, combined with the utilization of an outdated mortality table.

Description: As the title of this corner suggests, our industry has many challenges and issues yet to address. This article focuses on the directions for the industry and the Reinsurance Section, on multiple levels. This includes the development of an up-to-date directory of reinsurers by various lines of business and the upcoming Re-Focus Summit 2006 featuring risk management and reinsurance.

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.