Reinsurance Concepts, Principles and Practices

Programme Highlights

This 3-day course provides a foundational understanding of reinsurance principles, life reassurance, treaty accounts, and various reinsurance types. It covers the advantages, disadvantages, and applications of proportional and non-proportional treaties, including common treaty clauses.

21 CPD Hours
Mode: Face-to-Face Training
Dates: 7, 8 & 9 April 2025
Time: 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

For Whom

  • Staff in reinsurance companies who support the underwriting, technical accounting and claims functions in their organisations.
  • Other non-operational support staff working in reinsurance companies.
  • Support staff working in reinsurance broking firms.
  • Staff in reinsurance departments of direct insurance companies who support the placement, technical accounting and claims functions.
  • Staff of regulatory bodies who need to understand the principles and practical applications of reinsurance.
  • New entrants to the insurance and reinsurance industry.

Key Learning Objectives

At the end of the programme, participants should be able to:

  • The concept of risk, insurance and reinsurance, benefits and limitations of reinsurance and the fundamental legal principles of insurance/reinsurance.
  • The reinsurance market.
  • The forms of reinsurance.
  • Sum insured allocation at risk inception and loss recovery allocation in the event of a claim.
  • Advantages and disadvantages of facultative reinsurance as well as the process of arranging facultative reinsurance.
  • The workings of the various types of proportional and non-proportional treaties and their differences.
  • Reinsurance accounting.
  • Contract wordings.
  • Life reassurance.
  • Office practice and procedure in relation to reinsurance.
  • The contract certainty principles and guidelines as outlined by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Programme Outline

  • Introduction to reinsurance.
  • The reinsurance market.
  • Forms of reinsurance.
  • Facultative Reinsurance.
  • Proportional Treaties.
  • Non-Proportional Treaties.
  • Reinsurance accounting.
  • Contract wordings.
  • Life Reassurance.
  • Office practice procedure.

Programme Leader

Bernard Lee has more than 20 years of experience in the reinsurance industry focusing on the underwriting and management of treaties in the region. He is currently Head of Compliance of a reinsurance broking company dealing with both regulatory and operational compliance matters in the company.

Programme Fee

Full Course Fee: S$1,242.60 (incl. of 9% GST)

Net Course Fee: S$900.60 (incl. of 9% GST and after 30% FTS funding) for Singapore Citizens below 40 years old and Singapore Permanent Residents

Net Course Fee: S$742.60 (incl. of 9% GST and after 70% FTS funding) for Singapore Citizens aged 40 years old and above

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31/12/24

Reinsurance Concepts, Principles and Practices

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