A Welcome Development for Life Settlement QIAIFs
In a welcome move, the Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) has simplified the authorisation requirements…
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Q&A: Roger Lawrence, Managing Director, WL Consulting
The Traded Endowment Policy Market in the United Kingdom is slowly coming to an end.…
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Competition in Funded Reinsurance Market Heating Up
The pension risk transfer sector is heating up; according to Risk Transfer Report 2022, from…
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Longevity and Mortality Risk’s Natural Hedge the Tip of the Iceberg for Portfolio Construction
The life risk investment market ultimately comes down to two sides of the same coin:…
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Understanding The Tertiary Life Settlement Market Key To Success but Secondary Market Deal Flow Needs To Improve To Fuel Growth
Life Settlements industry publication The Life Settlements Report, part of The Deal, publishes data each…
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ILS and ESG – The Opportunities
ESG has moved forward in the financial markets dramatically in the last few years. ILS…
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Poll: Will Pension Risk Transfer Deal Activity in the UK Increase, Decrease or Stay Roughly the Same in the Next 5 Years?
The United Kingdom has the most active pension risk transfer market but despite it being…
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The Arc Of Due Diligence – A Path To Institutional Acceptance Of Life Settlements
Today, according to research firm Conning, an estimated $22bn is currently “in-force” in the life…
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Q&A: Tom Scales, Celent
Insurance companies are generally considered to be laggards in terms of their adoption of technologies,…
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Frustrating Headwinds in Quest To See Life Insurance Adopted as Wealth Accumulation/Preservation Asset
On the surface, Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) in the United States are a natural home…
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UK Pension Risk Transfer Market Just Getting Started
Pension risk transfer (PRT) – the process whereby a defined benefit pension fund transfers its…
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Life Settlement Market Still Held Back by Lack of Awareness
According to the American Council of Life Insurers’ Life Insurance Factbook 2021, around 5% of…
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If Longevity Risk is an Asset Class, How Do We Make It More Tradeable?
Over the years, we have witnessed the successful commoditisation of several risks, including credit risk,…
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Poll: What Is the Greatest Barrier to Increasing the Number of Life Risk Transactions?
The market for the transfer of life-based risk to the capital markets remains an embryonic…
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Myths About the Life Settlement Industry
A “life settlement” is the sale of an in-force life insurance policy to an unrelated…
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