Can Radical Life Extension Happen Again? Relevance for Life Settlements
One of the most attractive investment features of life settlements is the regularity and predictability…
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Q&A: Ailish Finnerty, Partner, Arthur Cox
Life settlement funds have long enjoyed a home in Ireland. Greg Winterton caught up with…
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Conflicting Views in Calculation of Latest Continuous Mortality Investigation Model
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) published CMI_2023, its annual update…
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UK Regulators Look To Understand Funded Re Risks
Funded Reinsurance (funded re) is not a new concept for life insurers but the upswing…
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Plenty of Interest in UK Equity Release Market Despite Down Year in 2023
At the beginning of February, UK trade group the Equity Release Council (ERC) published data…
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Smaller Schemes Still Finding Appetite Despite Red Hot UK Pension Risk Transfer Market
The UK’s pension risk transfer (PRT) market saw transactions totalling approximately £50bn in 2023, according…
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Understanding Vertically Integrated Providers in the Life Settlement Market
In the 43 states of the US that have a regulatory infrastructure for the life…
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Q&A: TC Jefferson, The Plenum Group
Funded Reinsurance (funded re) is not a new concept for life insurers but the upswing…
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Term Life Insurance in the News but Universal Life Still the Dominant Policy Type in Life Settlement Market
The essence of a life insurance policy’s attractiveness to the life settlement industry lies in…
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Personnel Battle Heating Up As Constituents Change in Booming UK Pension Risk Transfer Market
Last September, the UK pension risk transfer (PRT) market received a new entrant in the…
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NAV Performance and Valuation Reporting Problems in Life Settlements
The return of life settlements stems ultimately from income exceeding expenses. The investment needs to…
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Drivers of Policy Sales Persistent but Bigger Picture More Interesting to Investors
Despite their industry now being two decades old (in its current form), life settlement asset…
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Decline in US Life Insurance Policy Numbers Offset by Rising Aggregate Face Amount
The third of our reviews of the ACLI digest of US Life Insurance statistics focusses…
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Solving The Obesity Paradox, When Being Fat Is Good For You
Obesity is a killer, but nobody dies directly from being overweight. Instead, excess pounds are…
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Q&A: Anna Bailey, Chestnut Capital Management
Like most asset classes in the alternative credit market, the life settlement industry has had…
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