Long COVID and Reinfection Risk
As we enter the 4th year of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the number of…
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Q&A: Hanna Persson, Head of Sales, Ress Capital
Stockholm-based asset manager Ress Capital is a specialist investor in life settlements and runs one…
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Difficulty in Modelling Pandemic Risk a Main Reason Why Pandemic Bonds Won’t Return
The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) was launched in 2016 by the World Bank as…
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Would SFDR Article 9 Compliance Deliver an Asset Flows Boon for EU Life Settlement Funds?
Two years ago, the European Commission (EC) implemented its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), a…
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AI and Algorithms Driving Change in Life Insurance Underwriting
The traditional life insurance underwriting approach sees an agent speaking to a customer, who then…
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A Question for the Arizona Supreme Court: Is the Two-Year Contestability Period Sacrosanct?
In the carrier rescission case of Columbus Life Insurance Company versus Wilmington Trust, N.A., filed…
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Roundtable: Life Expectancy Underwriters
The life settlement industry in particular is a heavy user of life expectancy estimates and…
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Mortality
Human activities have accelerated biosphere change on this planet. Key drivers of the climate crisis…
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Poll: What Is Holding Back More Investment Firms From Actively Participating in the Life ILS Market?
The life ILS market is a relationship and network-driven one, which, when compared to other…
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Prudent Due Diligence Key to Mitigating Life Settlement Unlicensed Operator Risk
The option to sell one’s life insurance policy in the life settlement market is an…
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Q&A: Philip Siller, Executive Chair and Co-CEO, BroadRiver Asset Management
ELSA’s Master Agreement for Tertiary Transactions (MATT) was first published in 2019. Life Risk News’…
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Will Canada Ever Get a Secondary Market for Life Insurance Policies Available to All?
American seniors with an in-force life insurance policy have, for a century now, had the…
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2023 Set To Be Banner Year for UK Pension Risk Transfer Market
The pension risk transfer (PRT) market in the United Kingdom received a boost in November…
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Uncertainty Clouds Insurers’ Post-Covid-19 Mortality Projections
When insurers set their longevity assumptions, it consists of two parts: the baseline assumption, which…
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Florida Office of Insurance Regulation Data Request on the Back Burner – For Now
The end of the calendar year sees many in the finance world cast half an…
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