December 12, 2024

Credit and Liquidity Risk Back in Focus but Life Settlement Market Looks to 2025 With Optimism

The Office of Financial Research in the US published its 2024 Annual Report to Congress…

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December 12, 2024

To Buy-Out, or Not To Buy-Out?

The total surplus of the approximately 5,000 defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in the UK…

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December 12, 2024

Latest Version of NCOIL Life Settlements Model Act Provides Welcome Update to Outdated Processes

Ask any life settlement broker or provider about the administrative processes involved in completing a…

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December 12, 2024

Taking the Next Steps to Better Serve the Life Settlement Market

Established in 1994, the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) is the oldest and largest trade…

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December 12, 2024

US Life Insurance Industry Posts Solid 2023 Despite Macroeconomic Challenges

The 2024 edition of the Life Insurance Fact Book – the American Council of Life…

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December 12, 2024

Q&A: Cobus Daneel, Chair, Continuous Mortality Investigation Projections Committee

A range of events in the past few years have had a significant impact on…

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December 12, 2024

Longevity Swaps are Back? They Never Went Away

Data from consulting firm WTW in its De-risking report 2024, published at the beginning of…

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November 13, 2024

New Research Set to Have Significant Impact on Longevity and Mortality Markets

The average life expectancy of a newborn human in 1900 was 32 years, and according…

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November 13, 2024

Getting Data Right Remains a Challenge in UK Pension Risk Transfer Market

Data is everything and everywhere, from generative artificial intelligence (AI) to supermarket loyalty cards. So,…

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November 13, 2024

UK Smoking Bill Likely to Deliver Only Modest Improvements to Future Life Expectancy

Smoking rates in the UK have been falling since records were first taken in 1974,…

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November 13, 2024

What is the Current State of the Relationship Between ESG and the Longevity and Mortality Markets?

The environmental, social and governance investing movement was, for years, akin to a juggernaut relentlessly…

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November 13, 2024

Reinsurance Developments in the Bulk Purchase Annuity Market

The Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) market has experienced remarkable expansion over the past few years,…

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November 13, 2024

Slowing the Biological Clock: How Lifestyle Choices Influence Ageing

Ageing can be described as the progressive physiological changes in an organism that leads to…

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November 13, 2024

Q&A: Dr. Rahul Nawander, Medical Director, Fasano Underwriting

The underwriting process in the life settlement industry has changed in the past two decades,…

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November 13, 2024

Few Options for Investors To Access Canadian Secondary Life Markets but a Novel Idea Has Potential

Four years ago last month, Canadian politician Rudy Cuzzetto, Member of Provincial Parliament for Mississauga-Lakeshore…

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