This report provides a brief overview of reinsurance and risk transfer principles, paying attention to the emerging international consensus. It provides guidance on assessing risk transfer in a reinsurance contract for accounting and valuation purposes, and examines other related topics such as finite and financial reinsurance, side agreements, mirroring, bifurcation and reinsurance counterparty risk.
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