Description: Announcement of the best article published in the Reinsurance News in 2021.

Description: Looking at the future, a panel of executives from leading global reinsurers predicted a broader framework in which capital markets, reinsurers and direct writers would be able to provide ways to offer or free up capital.

Description: There are practical and conceptual aspects underlying (re)insurability. Practically, something or someone is insurable if an insurer is willing provide insurance coverage at a price the applicant is willing to pay. In contrast, a conceptual view of (re)insurabiity incorporates a range of more complex factors usually considered in the insurance process. This article discusses these two approaches.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker

Description: Feature article discussing the current state of reinsurance for the variable annuity market.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: In this article, the author provides an update, as of April 2023, on the Reinsurance Section’s sponsored research in process and studies recently completed.

Description: First dollar carriers, stop loss carriers, and reinsurers play a different role in reimbursing healthcare claims. This article explores the reinsurer's role in reimbursing COVID-19 related claims.

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: With more than 24 years of experience in the reinsurance market, Bruno Freire is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Austral Re, along with Vinci Partners, a private equity firm. Austral Re is a Brazilian- based multiline reinsurer which that writes business across Latin America. It has grown organically throughout the last 13 years, and had its credit rating upgraded to A- in 2023 by AM Best (it also has AAAbr from S&P). Before joining Austral, Bruno had been a reinsurance broker at Aon Re for more than 10 years, having witnessed the opening of the reinsurance market in Brazil. As we will be seen in his interview the following, he believes in a data driven analytic approach, client focused but with an underwriting mindset, as well as a strong support from actuaries and technology as key instruments to run a reinsurance company successfully.