Description: The ideal business situations for securitization would be those where a company faces significant risks or has significant growth opportunities and where conventional sources of risk hedging or financing are not available or are too expensive. Ultimately, securitization should be able to provide hedging and/or financing that is more effective and less expensive than the alternatives.

Description: Summary of the results from the SOA Reinsurance Section's survey of individual and group life reinsurance business assumed in 2023.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Discussion on Ebola, how it spreads and whether or not it is an epidemic or pandemic.

Description: Discussion of a Reinsurance Arbitration Survey covering the period 1998–2001 Also a discussion of the shrinking number of life reinsurance companies in the USA

Description: The stated purpose of this article is to give several specific examples of financial reinsurance transactions and to give some ideas on how a representative of a ceding company or a professional reinsurer could make contact with others in various venues to get in the mainstream of financial reinsurance activities.

Description: The following paper sets out the approach being used by Reinsurance Group of America RGA to apply SFAS 133 Implementation Issue B36 to coinsurance funds-withheld and modified coinsurance transactions that are classified as “financial reinsurance.”

Description: A high-level discussion of the financial reinsurance marketplace.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker

Description: This article makes reference to a session on financial reinsurance at the 2007 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, noting that the speakers at the meeting made a case that with respect to life reinsurance, “the rating agencies should have a more positive view of financial reinsurance,” and clarified that the recent problems arose on the property-casualty side, where financial reinsurance was used to smooth earnings.