June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

Life Expectancy in Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women worldwide. In the…

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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

June 12, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA

May 14, 2025

Overseeing BPA Growth Safely

Over the last year we have continued to see growth in bulk purchase annuity (BPA)…

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ELSA

May 14, 2025

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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ELSA