Description: Summary of current state of A&H reinsurance business.

Description: One way to reduce a catastrophe’s effects is to buy traditional catastrophe coverage. Another is to participate in a catastrophe pool Special Pooled Risk.

Description: This is an article on avian flu and reinsurance as it relates to smaller insurance companies.

Description: In the context of reinsurance, this paper addresses finding the quota share retention level and the retention limit, with a diffusion process being added to the claim process, that maximizes the adjustment coefficient in the Sparre Anderson model. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: The global nature of the reinsurance industry has enabled the diversification of risk away from concentration in specific regions to the larger global market. However, record catastrophe losses, inflation stemming from increased interest rates, geopolitical tensions and heightened climate risk are putting operating pressures on insurers and reinsurers. Article discusses the implications.