“But, similar to last year, the mood was clearly skewed towards the positive, for a range of reasons. Court cases closing, bringing clarity to life settlement market participants; encouraging signs in the origination channel that the secondary market will, generally, continue to grow; and an increase in interest among capital allocators for assets like life settlements that deliver strong returns with low correlation to broader equity and fixed income investments.”

Holding the event in Zurich marks the second time since before the Covid-19 pandemic that ELSA has held an event outside of London, with last year’s event in Stockholm being the first. According to Hanna Persson, Head of Sales and Investor Relations at Ress Capital and Chair of the ELSA Conference Committee, the decision to take the event on the road again speaks to ELSA’s desire to broaden its impact.

“Zurich’s position as a leading European financial centre made it an obvious choice to take the event there this year. It is important that ELSA leads the way in connecting the European life settlement market and initiatives such as this one enable us to do just that.”

ELSA would like to express its gratitude to EY, the Venue Host; Conference Leader, Longevity Holdings; Conference Partners, Apex Capital Management, ArentFox Schiff, NorthStar Life Services; Orrick, Conference Supporters; Computershare, Conning, Longevity Services, Preston Capital, Break Sponsors; Actuarial Risk Management, Corry Capital Advisers, LifeRoc Capital, Wilmington Trust.

ELSA would also like to thank the conference speakers: Andre Dylan Kohler, Beat Hess, Ben Grainger, Bryan Nicholson, David Naughton, Greg Winterton, Hanna Persson, James Westerlind, John Dallas, Khai LeQuang, Liam Bodemeaid, Manu Mazumdar, Phil Hall, Raffaele Dell’Amore, Rahul Nawander, Roger Lawrence, and Scott Rose.