Description: This article discusses the stability in income provided by reinsurance and the associated cost.

Description: This article presents the author's views on how direct writers of term insurance should view and monitor their reinsurance.

Description: This article discusses the emerging issue of the ability of reinsurers to raise premium rates under yearly renewable term YRT life reinsurance contracts and the propriety of such rate increases. From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: An executive perspective on strategy and risk in reinsurance.

Description: This article explores the current market dynamics in the U.K. life reinsurance market and considers the sustainability of the current position.

Description: Presents the results from the 2013 SOA Life Reinsurance Survey - an annual survey capturing individual and group life data from US and Canadian life reinsurers. New business production and in force figures are reported.

Description: This article highlights emerging accelerated underwriting (AUW) monitoring trends and best practices that carriers can implement for monitoring their own AUW programs. It includes high-level mortality slippage findings based on a reinsured study population comprised of both pre- and post-issue auditing methods (random holdouts and post-issue audits) conducted on over 33,000 AUW applicants over the past decade.

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: This article discusses the results of the annual SOA life reinsurance survey, which captures individual and group life data from US and Canadian reinsurers.

Description: Identifies current trends and considerations when setting the mortality improvement assumption for individual life insurance in the US.