2005 Reinsurance Seminar Hosted In Bermuda
By Jean DeSantis, Chairperson, Joint Committee for the Reinsurance Seminar 

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess in Bermuda will host the 2005 CAS Reinsurance Seminar, June 5-7. A welcome reception will kick off the seminar on Sunday evening with general sessions and concurrent sessions on Monday and Tuesday. 

The Monday morning general session will discuss the actuary's role in the management of the insurance cycle from an executive viewpoint. In the Tuesday general session, federal reform and legislation issues will be addressed. Concurrent sessions will include technical sessions on catastrophe pricing, enterprise risk management, inflation risk, property per risk pricing, profitability return measures, terrorism modeling and pricing, and workers compensation excess loss factors. Business segments addressed will include crop insurance, directors and officers insurance, medical malpractice, and umbrella. Other concurrent session topics include international regulatory changes, the evolution of finite reinsurance, managing a global catastrophe portfolio, the reinsurance buying process, and what motivates the purchase of reinsurance.

The CAS Reinsurance Research Committee will host several concurrent sessions featuring papers prepared in response to the committee's call for papers on "Pricing Low-Frequency Reinsurance Products." One of these papers will be awarded the 2005 Ronald Ferguson Award. The committee will also host the Research Corner, a forum to present preliminary work and discuss innovative approaches to tackle problems. Anyone who would like to present his or her work is invited to contact the moderator at stewart.gleason@guycarp.com.

A registration brochure for the seminar was mailed to members in April. More information is also available on the CAS Web Site.