For an insurance company, reinsurance is one of the tools used to mitigate the risks related to its activity. In reinsurance, the principle of pooling, which is intrinsic to the insurance business, takes on an additional dimension.
Playing the role of insurer of insurance companies, the reinsurer works in a global market and aims to help companies improve their risk management. Insurance companies can indeed cede part of their risks to increase their underwriting capacity.
Secondly, reinsurance contracts allow insurance companies to decrease the volatility of their results and increase their solvency ratio without resorting to a call for capital.
Participants will reinforce their understanding of technical aspects of reinsurance, the details of the treaties and their impact on the balance sheet, the income statement and the solvency of the insurance company.