Reinsurance Glossary

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Note: While every effort has been made to ensure the reinsurance glossary contains accurate and up-to-date reinsurance and insurance definitions, this glossary should be used only as an educational resource, not as an authority.

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  With many large US life insurers already having reinsured in-force blocks of individual annuity business as well as entered forward flow transactions …
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  Arch Capital Group is rated a Buy, contingent on maintaining profitability and book value growth amid declining reinsurance pricing.
• Unpredictable surrender behaviour renders increasing whole life insurance plans unsustainable
  July 17, 2026
  … Xiaodong, CEO of Taiping Reinsurance and Chairman of Taiping Reinsurance (China). However, because these plans allow policyholders to surrender their.