2000 Reinsurance Seminar Slated For Boston

The Copley Place Marriott in Boston will host the 2000 CAS Reinsurance Seminar, June 14-16. A welcome reception will kick off the seminar on Wednesday evening with full sessions beginning Thursday and ending Friday. Dinner and a reception will be held Thursday night at the Top of the Hub Restaurant and Skywalk.

General and concurrent sessions will cover valuation of reinsurance companies; capital market products; insurance products for credit enhancement and project finance; and weather theory and hedge products. Other topics covered in sessions include reinsurance reserving; finite risk reinsurance; aggregate distributions; the new ISO ILFs; and pricing reinsurance of property, workers compensation, and professional liability. Intermediate track sessions will review the basic techniques of reinsurance pricing. Two ceded track sessions will also focus on how DFA and property catastrophe modeling are used to design reinsurance programs. Other highlights include a session on current events and a research corner.

More information on the seminar will soon be mailed to members and will be available on the CAS Web Site.