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This week: Reinsurance market cooling, Gallagher acquires First Actuarial, Jackson Financial launches captive reinsurer, and diffusion models enter loss reserving.
📰 Industry News
Reinsurance Market Cooling as Expanded Capacity Drives Down Prices
Risk & Insurance
Expanded capacity is driving prices down across the reinsurance market, signaling a shift from the hard market conditions of recent years.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires First Actuarial
PR Newswire
Gallagher expands actuarial consulting capabilities with acquisition of First Actuarial, strengthening their employee benefits and pension advisory practice.
Jackson Financial Partners with TPG to Establish Captive Reinsurer
Captive Insurance Times
Jackson Financial and TPG establish new captive reinsurance entity, following the trend of life insurers using captives for capital efficiency.
2026: The Year Reinsurance FOMO is Put to the Test?
Insurance Insider
Analysis of whether reinsurer "fear of missing out" on capacity deployment will persist as market conditions soften.
The Future of Actuarial Pricing
Deloitte
Deloitte's perspective on how technology and data analytics are transforming actuarial pricing methodologies.
Alternative Capital Hits $124bn Record
Artemis.bm • Aon
Alternative reinsurance capital reached a record $124 billion as of September 2025, driven by consistent third-party investor appetite.
Schedule F: What the F is in There?
CAS Actuarial Review
A deep dive into Schedule F of the NAIC Annual Statement, exploring reinsurance data and how actuaries can leverage it.
Ball State Recognized as Center of Actuarial Excellence
Ball State University
Ball State University receives SOA's Center of Actuarial Excellence designation, joining elite group of actuarial programs.
🔬 Research Spotlight
Probabilistic Loss Reserving Prediction Via Denoising Diffusion Model
B Choy, J Gao • Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2026
A novel approach to predicting loss reserves using diffusion models. The method treats run-off triangles as graphical representations, capturing interconnections between development periods.
Why it matters: Diffusion models (the tech behind DALL-E) applied to loss reserving—potential paradigm shift in uncertainty quantification.
Transformers For Tabular Data: Self-Attention Via Optimal Transport
A Candelieri, A Quadrio • arXiv, 2025
New training perspective for tabular transformers using optimal transport theory.
ML Models for Predicting CAT Bond Coupons Using Climate Data
arXiv, 2025
Evaluates ML models for forecasting cat bond coupons incorporating climate variability.
Efficient Time Series Forecasting With Gated Attention
B Guan, X Gu • Big Data Research, 2026
GATTSF framework balances accuracy with computational efficiency using gated attention.