Conference Begins June 4, 2025

June 4, 2025

Innovating Risk
Building Resilience

Explore groundbreaking insights and solutions that are redefining the reinsurance landscape.

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Preliminary Sessions

This is a preliminary list of topics for the 2025 Seminar on Reinsurance. All sessions are tentative to change.

Leadership Soft skills - Managing remote employee/goal setting
Learning from Mistakes - Practice issues (examples, case studies)
01000100 01100001 01110100 01100001 Visualization - Data Visualization
Modeled Bias and How to Recognize it
Professionalism Bingo
Casualty CAT -- Model, Product and Pricing
Casualty State of the market - Large Claims in Casualty Lines
Chain Ladder Reserve Range Estimates with a Tail
A Technique to Estimate IBNR Distributions
Are we there yet? Have we reached the inflection point on US Casualty adverse development?
Influence of the Economy / Tariffs on Insurance
Get that data! Using Public Available Data in Pricing
Social Inflation and litigation funding
Severe Convective Storm View of Risk Challenges
Casualty Construction Coverage Constructs: Implications for Actuaries
Cyber Aggregation Event Categorization Framework
Is the Current D&O Market Sustainable?
Mortgage Insurance
Navigating the Workers' Compensation Landscape: Trends and Insights
PFAS and Emerging forever chemicals
Public Entity Insurance
Understanding Wildfire Risk
Wheels Keep Rolling on Commercial Auto Insurance
Capital Allocation Technique and Comparison
Battlebots - It's Raining
Beyond BS - Casualty Tail
Why is Exposure Rating Always Wrong
Creating & Updating ILFs
Curve Fitting - Reinsurance Pricing Freq
Making Risk Transfer Testing Easy

Schedule of Events

35+ Sessions

Dive into over 35 sessions led by top industry experts, covering critical topics like cyber risk, parametric insurance, and advanced reserving methodologies. Strengthen your expertise, connect with fellow professionals, and gain actionable insights tailored to the evolving reinsurance landscape. Explore the full schedule of sessions and speakers when our final program listing becomes available.

Topics

Speakers at the 2025 Seminar on Reinsurance will share their experience and expertise in the following topics:

Parametric Coverage/Insurance

Explore the growing role of parametric coverage in reinsurance. Understand how structured payouts tied to predefined triggers are transforming risk management and offering innovative solutions to emerging challenges.

Claims

Uncover cutting-edge strategies for optimizing claims processes in reinsurance. Gain insights into trends and technologies that improve claims handling, accuracy, and customer outcomes.

Alternative Reserving Methodologies

Dive into advanced reserving methodologies that challenge traditional approaches. Learn how innovative techniques can provide more accurate projections and support better decision-making.

Abnormal/Truncated Data Sets

Master the complexities of working with abnormal or truncated data sets. Explore tools and techniques for managing incomplete or skewed data to drive accurate analyses and reliable conclusions.

Reinsurance Pricing by Frequency and Severity

Gain specialized knowledge in pricing strategies that balance frequency and severity. Understand how to optimize pricing models to align with risk appetite and market conditions.

CAS Capability Model

The CAS Capability Model is a visual framework that articulates and provides guidance on the traits, skills and knowledge important for most property/casualty actuaries.

Myth vs. Reality: Examining Public Perception of (Re)insurance

Featured Speaker

Jerry Theodorou

Director, Finance, Insurance & Trade Program, R Street Institute

2024 saw yet another year of a flurry of challenges for the insurance industry and an increase in public outcry over both affordability and availability of insurance.

“Citizens Property Insurance reporting 70% claims denial for individual storms…” - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec 2024

“This is a pocketbook issue….Someone has got to do better” – Sen Lujan, Dec 2024

“The data confirm that climate change is driving increasing non-renewal rates.” - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec 2024

“While the Rolling Stones might say “You can’t always get what you want,” in insurance markets now households can’t even get what they need.” Benjamin J. Keys, Ph.D, Dec 2024

“When insurance companies won't accept millions of dollars of premiums, even at today's much higher rates, that tells me they think things are going to get worse, “ERNEST SHAGHALIAN JR CPCU AAI, Dec 2024

“Consumer advocates oppose letting insurers pass on reinsurance costs to California policyholders” – Digital Insurance, Dec 2024

While Insurance is a consumer’s financial first responder with reinsurance as the shock-absorber, we continue to battle with incomplete information being circulated on a highly nuanced financial instrument. Jerry Theodorou, Director at R Street Institute will explore some of the issues our industry faces today, digging further into some of the public policy developments including some hitting right at home in reinsurance.

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Founder of a Reinsurer? – Let’s Hear from the Experts

The session will explore the following issues in starting a reinsurance company: Market capacity needs, underserved segments of the marketplace, approval of security from ceding companies, capitalization, financing rate of return, staffing, corporate governance, initial operations, country of origin, rating agency, regulatory, system concerns, initial operations. Our panel will explore this wide breadth of issues:

Is there a need for a new reinsurance market?
What level of capitalization do we need and how will we raise the money and at what cost of capital?
What ceding companies can we service? What will be the timeframe for security concerns with ceding companies?
Where we will incorporate and domicile?
What will be the initial staffing level and who will be the founding team?
Investor meetings initial operations, five year pro forma financial statements

Our panel of Senior Founding Executives will explore all of these considerations from a firsthand basis.

Speakers: Stuart Quinlan, CEO, Conduit Re David Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Topsail Re Keith Plummer, Co Founder and President, Bay Harbor Re

2025 Reinsurance Seminar Working Group

Chairs

Stephanie Gould Rabin

Volunteer Chair

Zilan Shen

Volunteer Vice Chair

Josie Harler

Staff Chair

Leanne Wieczorek

Staff Chair

Working Group Members

Timothy Aman

Kyle Bartee

Barry Blodgett

Raju Bohra

Lon Chang

Sean Devlin

Isaac Espinoza

Yinglu Fan

Yu Shi (Andy) Feng

Charles Gegax

John Ferrara

Julie Halper

Andrew Hancock

Christian Hauprich

Yi Jing

Derek Jones

Kathleen Knudson

Trevor Leitch

Li Li Lin

Dustin Loeffler

Brian Mullen

Marni Novack

Neil Schwarzenberger

Tracy Valentine

Lisa Walsh

Wenyi Zhang

13.8 CE Available

Stay ahead in the evolving reinsurance landscape. Earn up to 13.8 CE credits through dynamic sessions on AI-driven advancements, cyber risk management, and parametric insurance solutions. Refine your expertise and gain actionable tools from top industry experts.

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Connect with Industry Leaders

Build valuable connections with fellow actuaries and industry experts. Take advantage of ample networking opportunities to expand your professional network and engage with exhibitors showcasing cutting-edge solutions and expertise in Ratemaking, Product Innovation, and Modeling.