Both Demand and Supply Factors Contribute to Rare Secondary Market Pullback in 2024
The life settlement secondary market suffered a rare pull back in aggregate transaction activity in…
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Funded Reinsurance Under Scrutiny But Should Remain a Feature of the UK Pension risk Transfer Market
In the past 12 months or so, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the UK insurance…
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Plenty of Guardrails for US Life Insurers Backing Group Annuities With Private Assets
There has been extensive coverage in the trade media in the past 12 months relating…
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Liver Disease Mortality in England Continues to Worsen but General Mortality Still on a Post-Covid Downward Trend
The UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) maintains a Mortality Profile for…
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Life Expectancy in Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women worldwide. In the…
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The Healthy Wealthy Population of the Life Settlement Market
In the life settlement industry, we’ve long prided ourselves on the precision of our underwriting…
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Q&A: Matthew Sheridan, Health Data Analytics
The American Medical Association published research in April 2025 suggesting that US healthcare spending in…
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Irish Pension Risk Transfer Market Sees Growth Hope in Experience of Small UK Schemes
While the UK’s pension risk transfer (PRT) market is motoring on at a heady clip,…
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New Data Shows the Extent to Which American Seniors Are Missing Out by Lapsing or Surrendering their Life Insurance Policy
Life settlement industry group the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) has recently published the results…
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Buy-Ins To Buy-Outs Appear Stalled As Deal Complexity, Administration Resources Pose Obstacles
A succession of high-activity years for defined benefit (DB) pension scheme bulk purchase annuity (BPA)…
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Is Servicing an Overlooked Source of Life Settlement Alpha?
Life settlement asset managers have plenty to consider as they construct a diversified portfolio. Not…
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UK Life Insurers to Benefit from Robust Bulk Annuity Market in 2025
UK life insurers are poised to continue benefitting from strong bulk annuity volumes in 2025…
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The Power of Uncorrelated Diversification During Market Volatility
In volatile financial environments, institutional and retail investors increasingly seek asset classes untethered to the…
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Overseeing BPA Growth Safely
Over the last year we have continued to see growth in bulk purchase annuity (BPA)…
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Q&A: Shelly Beard, Managing Director, WTW
The UK pension risk transfer (PRT) market has delivered – yet again – a high-activity…
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