Description: Welcome to reinsurance, where deals worth millions of dollars happen often with no more than minimal terms and conditions actually written down as agreed between the parties. This article discusses the concepts of contract finality.

Description: This article is a review of the book by Joshua Foer. It covers the history of memory techniques, the way a human brain organizes memory, and various problems and successes in memory recall. The author starts by interviewing memory savants, and learns from them that the ability to perform seemingly impossible memory tricks is simply a matter of studying and practicing proven techniques used for millennia. This review suggests that actuaries can benefit greatly from some of these techniques despite the availability of electronic hand-held devices to recall facts because the person who does not need to rely upon such devices can have a huge perceptual advantage in executive presentations.

Description: We look in this article at the challenges which life insurance companies operating in a low interest environment have to face.

Description: September 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: A summary of a recent U.S. District Court decision regarding the applicability of the Federal Excise Tax (FET) on foreign-to-foreign retrocessions.

Description: A discussion of the Reinsurance Section survey that went out, what the RSC has done over the past year, and what we'll be doing going forward.

Description: A history and overview of the Reinsurance Administration Professional Association (RAPA).

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: Interview with Steve Mannik CEO of General Re Life.

Description: Over the years I have come to believe that the nature vs nurture debate is fundamentally flawed, in that it tends to exclude an increasingly important third influence: culture.