financial reinsurance

Financial reinsurance is one means by which insurance companies can "smooth" their results.

In other words, financial reinsurance increases the company's free assets.

Finite or financial reinsurance has been in use for more than a decade.

The policies in question are known as finite insurance or financial reinsurance.

The investigations into financial reinsurance have already produced some striking results.

OF course, it is unclear what regulators will find as they delve more deeply into financial reinsurance.

The specific type of insurance of interest to prosecutors is known as finite or financial reinsurance.

This is generally a sensible thing, but it's not what financial reinsurance is aiming for.

Hoping to increase the amount of premiums they took in, insurance companies became highly creative about the financial reinsurance products they were selling.

Companies buying financial reinsurance, investigators say, sometimes improperly reported the transactions in order to inflate their financial results.

Financial reinsurance is a form of reinsurance that is primarily used for capital management rather than to transfer insurance risk.

RenaissanceRe both buys and sells such reinsurance, which is often called finite or financial reinsurance.

In setting up a financial reinsurance treaty, the reinsurer will provide capital (there are a number of ways of doing this, discussed below).

The insurance that prompted the restatement, finite insurance or financial reinsurance, has been the focus of a wide-ranging investigation into the insurance industry.

Financial Reinsurance (or fin re), is a form of reinsurance which is focused more on capital management than on risk transfer.

As such, the most severe threat inherent in financial reinsurance is to investors who buy insurance stocks and to consumers who buy coverage from insurance companies.

He estimates that between $40 billion and $50 billion of insurance premiums in any given year have involved policies with some kind of financial reinsurance aspect.

Many financial reinsurance transactions, particularly for life insurers, have little impact on GAAP accounts and shareholder-reported profits.

Guidelines for Financial Reinsurance (article by Sidley Austin)

This month, Platinum Underwriters Holdings canceled a financial reinsurance transaction that it had struck with Berkshire Hathaway.

The transaction unwound by Platinum is a type of insurance known broadly as finite or financial reinsurance, which is intended to limit companies' exposure to unknown liabilities.

Most companies subpoenaed by Mr. Kelley over the last two days, said Mr. Klauber, were heavily involved in selling and buying financial reinsurance.

Financial reinsurance is generally intended to impact the regulatory balance sheet on the premise that that balance sheet provides a distorted view of a company's solvency otherwise.

This issue arose most clearly in reinsurance, where the use of Financial Reinsurance to reengineer insurer balance sheets under US GAAP became fashionable during the 1980s.

The insurance is broadly known as finite insurance, or financial reinsurance, and subpoenas relating to its use have been issued recently to Ace Ltd., St. Paul Travelers and Zurich Reinsurance.