• Reinsurance Pricing and Reserving - Intermediate Track

  This session will cover the new reinsurance chapter from the revised 4^th edition of the CAS Foundations of Casualty Actuarial Science textbook, being published this year. The chapter's author, Gary Patrik, will introduce the chapter and discuss the functions of reinsurance and types of contracts. Chris Svendsgaard will briefly discuss reinsurance pricing techniques for proportional, excess of loss, and aggregate excess contracts. Bill Belvin will discuss reinsurance loss reserving techniques, with numerical examples outlining different reserving methodologies.

  Moderator/Speaker:
  Gary S. Patrik, FCAS
  Chief Pricing Actuary
  Swiss Re

  Panelists:
  William H. Belvin, FCAS
  Chief Reserving Actuary
  Swiss Re
  Christian Svendsgaard, FCAS
  Senior Pricing Actuary
  Swiss Re

• Analyzing Loss Sensitive Reinsurance Treaty Terms

  Covering both technical and practical issues behind evaluating loss sensitive treaty terms, this session will discuss excess-of-loss and prorata contract terms, including profit commission, sliding scale commissions, and swing rates. The speakers will use numerical examples to illustrate how to use an aggregate loss distribution to analyze various treaty terms. In addition, they will look at these treaty terms from other business perspectives, such as accounting and underwriting. This session is intended for people with three or fewer years of reinsurance pricing experience.

  Moderator:
  Kari S. Mrazek, FCAS
  Assistant Vice President
  SCOR Reinsurance Company

  Panelists:
  Jeffrey L. Dollinger, FCAS
  Second Vice President
  Employers Reinsurance Corp.
  Jerome E. Tuttle, FCAS
  Senior Vice President & Senior Pricing Officer
  St. Paul Re

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