Description: Feature article describing the upcoming events of the 2011 Canadian Reinsurance Conference.

Description: In November 2011, a number of associations, including the American Council of Life Insurers [ACLI], filed comments with the Brazilian regulatory authority urging Brazil to stop restricting reinsurance access to only domestic reinsurers in one of the world’s leading emerging markets for insurance. This article examines the background and legitimacy of this complaint.

Description: This article highlights key regulatory and market developments in Bermuda and Cayman and the increasing role of actuaries in innovative structures like side cars and ISACs. With a focus on practical experiences and professional challenges, it offers a perspective on what these dynamic markets mean for the global actuarial community from someone working there.

Description: New tools for managing insurance risk have particularly emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, usually with roots in the financial markets. A strong motivating factor has been the record number of natural catastrophes and their impact in insured losses. New organization or joint ventures have been created to meet this demand. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.

Description: Read the September 2020 issue of Reinsurance News published by the Reinsurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Feature article discussing how technology is affecting the reinsurance business.

Description: Hear about the Reinsurance Section's 2020 highlights and opportunities for membership engagement.

Description: An explanation of the reasons why the IRS should rule on the application of section 351 to the transfer of assets and reserves in an indemnity coinsurance transaction where the ceding company transfers more assets to the assuming company than it would in an arms-length transaction and, therefore, the ceding company actually receives or is deemed to receive stock in the exchange for the transferred assets including the value of insurance in force. We also will summarize other interesting rulings in the PLR.

Description: This paper shows how Tranched Capital and RAROC can produce very different indicated reinsurance purchases than does the ISA.

Description: The Reinsurance Section of the Society of Actuaries currently has over 2,400 members which ranks it sixth amongst all sections. This article is an interview of Dean Abbott, the outgoing editor of the Reinsurance Section newsletter.