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: Valuation Approaches for FAS 133 DIG Issue B36: Embedded Derivatives: Modified Coinsurance Arrangements and Debt Instruments That Incorporate Credit Risk Exposure That Are Unrelated or Only Partially Related to the Creditworthiness of the Obligor Under Those Instruments”

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper that complements the existing research on optimal reinsurance by proposing another model for the determination of the optimal reinsurance design.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that presents an analysis of the capital needs, needed return on capital, and optimal reinsurance retention for insurance companies, all within the context of the compound Poisson distribution.