Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Robert W. Beal from Reinsurance Section News, September 2001, Issue No. 49.

Description: Article: "Section Council Drafts Guidelines for Funding Research Projects" by Jeffrey S. Katz.

Description: In this paper it will be shown that the result of using the 1975-80 Select and Ultimate Table as opposed to the more modern 1990-95 Select Ultimate Table can be a significant understatement of future mortality and hence, anticipated profits may prove to be illusory.

Description: One of the life insurance industry’s residual impacts of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 was some marked changes in the market for catastrophic reinsurance coverages.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the challenges insurance companies face when participating in the immediate annuity market for retirement income planning and to suggest ways that reinsurers could be of service to the direct writers of immediate annuities.

Description: Specific and aggregate stop loss insurance reinsurance is a product that has unique characteristics. The product is a special type of policy that covers employers or their self-funded employee benefit plans for larger health claims. The product has some unique reserving challenges for the health/reinsurance actuary.

Description: This article discusses the trends, developments and emerging issues of life settlements in 2006.

Description: This article discusses the use of mortality catastrophe bonds as a risk mitigation tool.

Description: This article discusses the comparative results from the SOA Mortality Table Structure survey. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.

Description: Mortality risk is the risk that a portfolio will suffer from mortality being heavier than expected. Longevity risk is the risk that a portfolio will suffer from mortality being lighter than expected. From Reinsurance Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 61.