Description: Product concepts that are born in one country often find their way to the other. This article discusses which products are the hot products in the United States and Canada, and what we can expect for future sales for these products.

Description: A preview on the Spring Society of Actuaries meetings in May of 2009.

Description: Chairman’s corner addressing the many recent external events which have impacted the level of trust in the insurance industry and how this affects product and marketing success for the industry.

Description: Innovative products and business processes often come from where you least expect them. This article explores the characteristics of disruptive innovations and provides a framework for identifying and creating disruption in an existing business.

Description: The world around us keeps changing F.A.S.T. propelling life insurance companies to respond with F.R.E.S.H. product solutions.

Description: Discussion that reinsurance regulation is driving the amount and hence the cost of capital and hence the ability of reinsurers to price products competitively

Description: Discussion of the need for long term care reinsurance and the types of services needed and available.

Description: Haven’t we all been watching for the next big financing transaction and wondering whether it will be done by a reinsurer or an insurer? Also will it support XXX reserve redundancies or will the market have finally “cracked the code” for the financing of AXXX reserves?

Description: Feature article discussing the Life Settlements business: recent growth, pricing, and future of the business.

Description: Highlights from Munich Re’s annual survey, which is conducted on behalf of the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Section and covers Canadian and U.S. ordinary and group life reinsurance new business production and in force.