[London, UK, 4^th June 2025] – Life Risk News has published the Life ILS Conference 2025 Summary Report.

Industry leaders in the longevity and mortality markets came together at the Life ILS Conference 2025 in London on 20^th May to discuss the prevailing challenges and opportunities ahead of them in the longevity and mortality markets.

Held at the offices of EY in London’s Canary Wharf district and keynoted by Professor Richard Faragher, Professor of Biogerontology at Brighton University, over 200 suppliers and buyers of risk, both in-person and virtually, heard from expert speakers across a range of categories and topics within the life risk industry.

The Life ILS Conference 2025 Summary Report contains a brief synopsis of each of the sessions at the conference, which included:

• Tackling Ageing: Hopes, Fears and Black Swans, Professor Richard Faragher’s keynote
• The State of the Life ILS Market, a panel discussion covering the hot topics in the life ILS, life settlement and pension risk transfer markets
• Supply and Demand Dynamics, a presentation and Q&A session focused on drivers of activity in the life ILS, life settlement and life insurance/alternative asset management markets
• The Outlook for Growth in the Life (Re)Insurance Sidecar Market, a panel discussion digging into the evolution of the asset intensive life reinsurance space
• Innovation in Longevity Risk, a panel discussion analysing how the management of longevity risk might evolve in the future
• Understanding Mortality, a presentation and Q&A session looking at some of the nuances of how the pension risk transfer, life settlement and US healthcare systems are modelling mortality

Life Risk News would like to express its sincere gratitude to the event sponsors, without whom the Life ILS Conference 2025 would not be possible: Venue Host, EY; Prime Sponsor, Longevity Holdings; Conference Partners, ArentFox Schiff, Hudson Structured Capital Management, and LifeRoc Capital; Break Sponsors, Actuarial Risk Management, BroadRiver Asset Management, Corry Capital Advisors, and Wilmington Trust; and Conference Supporters, Club Vita, Kilter Finance, Leadenhall Capital Partners, Mayer Brown, Preston Capital and Willkie, Farr & Gallagher.

Life Risk News would also like to thank our event speakers Arik Rashkes, Ben Grainger, Benjamin Kieffer, Dan Poole, David Griffiths, David Horley, George Belcher, Greg Winterton, Joe Tolen, Liam Bodemeaid, Kirsty Maclean, Lara Desay, Luca Tres, Matt Mejia, Matthew Sheridan, Michael Millette, Professor Richard Faragher, Ryan McTernan, Stuart McDonald, and Tom Spreutels.

The Life ILS Conference is the leading event in Europe that brings together the range of sub-categories of the longevity and mortality markets. Held annually in May, the 2025 edition was the sixth, and the third consecutive where attendees participated both in-person and virtually.

The Life ILS Conference Summary Report is available for download on the conference website.