Description: This article celebrates the tremendous progress that has been made in automating reinsurance data. It also looks at remaining issues, such as a lack of standardization, and challenges presented for the future.

Description: The article raises awareness about the ReRun Charity Event at the SOA Annual Meeting in order to increase participation. ReRun donates all funds raised at its events to well known charities. ReRun is also an additional networking opportunity at the SOA Annual Meeting that is set in a relaxed, fun atmosphere.

Description: This survey is an annual survey that captures individual and group life data from U.S. and Canadian life reinsurers.

Description: Summary of SOA research report "Optimizing Risk Retention" which applies parametric survival models and Monte Carlo simulation to a block of term life business.

Description: Key considerations when modeling reinsurance to calculate reserves under PBR as well as a case study examining the impact of reinsurance structures on reserves.

Description: A case study, in which we applied survival models to analyze the persistency of a life company in Asia and develop a strategy for actively managing the ...

Description: This article discussed modeling the P&C reinsurance market using an Agent Based Model to provide insights into the market. The characteristics of this marketplace provide credibility to this type of modeling. Specifically, the P&C reinsurance market has few major players, very little product differentiation, and low barriers to entry. In addition established competitors are volume-constrained due to prior business and capacity decisions made based on estimated product costs and prices.

Description: The article provides a brief background on the issue of modeling non-guaranteed reinsurance under Life princple-based reserving and explores how temporary solutions are impacting insurers as well as the journey to a long-term solution

Description: At the conclusion of the first part, attendees will be able to describe sources of reserve redundancy for products under Principle Based Reserve (PBR) and products under Commissioners' Annuity Reserve Valuation Method (CARVM). Such products include Term Life, Whole Life, Universal Life, and Fixed Annuity with and without rider. We will also review sources of capital redundancy from the C-1 factor under Risk-Based Capital (RBC) and assets such as Unrated Asset Credit Fund can have high C-1 factor even if its risks are limited. At the conclusion of the second part, the attendees will learn about potential Reserve Relief reinsurance solutions. Such solutions can provide Reserve Relief for annuity and term life businesses, as well as potential innovative asset-side solutions. Asset managers can structure assets that the C-1 factor aligned with the corresponding risk.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executives provide perspective on topics to include cell and gene therapy, structured reinsurance, reinsurance demand for value based care arrangements, and how reinsurers view a variety of risk transfer opportunities.