March 8, 2023

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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March 8, 2023

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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March 8, 2023

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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March 8, 2023

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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March 8, 2023

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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February 8, 2023

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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February 8, 2023

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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February 8, 2023

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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February 8, 2023

Roundtable: Life Settlements Asset Managers

2022 provided global investors with one of the most challenging macroeconomic environments in years as…

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February 8, 2023

The Legacy of the Pandemic for Pension Scheme Mortality

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shock to health and life expectancy, disrupting the…

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February 8, 2023

Poll: Are Life Risk Investors Generally Price-Makers or Price-Takers?

Being a price-maker is the holy grail of any business, and in investment circles, those…

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February 8, 2023

Caveat Emptor: Life Settlements and the Natural Person Exemption From Licensure

Interest in the life settlement asset class, the purchase of an unwanted and unneeded life…

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February 8, 2023

Q&A: Meghan Shue, Head of Investment Strategy, Wilmington Trust

Wealth management firm Wilmington Trust recently published its 2023 outlook, Capital Markets Forecast (CMF), Inflationary…

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February 8, 2023

Is a Digital Exchange the Solution to the Investor Participation in Longevity Risk Transfer Conundrum?

Partly fuelled by rising interest rates in 2022, Defined Benefit (DB) pension funds are increasingly…

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January 11, 2023

Prudent Portfolio Construction Methods Insulates Life ILS Sector from Lapse Rate Risk

In difficult times, consumers reduce or eliminate expenses that are considered non-essential. Streaming subscriptions in…

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