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

Description: Chairperson's Corner

Description: 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Reinsurance Conference. This one day industry meeting hosting delegates from North America and beyond will be held in Toronto on April 13, 2016 under the theme "ReDefining Leadership".

Description: Mairi Mallon talks about social media and reinsurance

Description: Summarizes results from the 2016 life reinsurance survey. Reinsurance new business production and in force for US and Canadian life reinsurers.