Description: This article discusses the utilization of credibility concepts to reinsurer-cedant moratality analysis.

Description: The article summarizes two of the highest rated sessions sponsored by the Reinsurance Section during the 2013 SOA Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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: Interview with Mike Smith, chief risk officer of ING U.S. Insurance Solutions unit.

Description: This article discusses the changes occurring in the illustrations systems market.

Description: Article describing some of the significant changes occurring in Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall with a focus on life insurance and conversion to a private pension market.

Description: The current insurance maket in Malaysia and the potential for future growth is described.

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: This paper demonstrates the calculation of the moments of the distribution of aggregate life insurance claims from seriatim inforce data, assuming that each record represents an independent Bernoulli trial with its own known probability of a claim, q. Continuous distributions matching the first three or four moments are identified.