Is Servicing an Overlooked Source of Life Settlement Alpha?
Life settlement asset managers have plenty to consider as they construct a diversified portfolio. Not…
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UK Life Insurers to Benefit from Robust Bulk Annuity Market in 2025
UK life insurers are poised to continue benefitting from strong bulk annuity volumes in 2025…
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The Power of Uncorrelated Diversification During Market Volatility
In volatile financial environments, institutional and retail investors increasingly seek asset classes untethered to the…
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Overseeing BPA Growth Safely
Over the last year we have continued to see growth in bulk purchase annuity (BPA)…
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Q&A: Shelly Beard, Managing Director, WTW
The UK pension risk transfer (PRT) market has delivered – yet again – a high-activity…
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Longevity Tech to Emerge as Distinct Sub-Sector of Venture Capital Market?
Last October saw the publishing in Nature Aging of Implausibility of radical life extension in…
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Life Insurer Credit Risk Again in the News but Life Settlement Market Keeps On Keeping On
Those in the US life insurance industry, and its associated markets, might be forgiven for…
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Capital-Backed Journey Plans Re-Enter Defined Benefit Pension De-Risking Debate as New Rules Loom
In 2020 the first capital-backed journey plan (CBJP) was completed, ushering a new way of…
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Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Future Mortality Remains An Almost Impossible Task
It has been a little more than five years since most of the world began…
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Canadian Pension Risk Transfer Market Set to Establish Higher Floor as Aggregate Deal Value Surges
Aggregate deal value in the Canadian pension risk transfer (PRT) market set a new record…
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Could Climate Change Cause the Buy-In Market To Collapse?
We’ve been researching the environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches of bulk annuity providers since…
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ICS vs Solvency II: Comparing Risk Corrections for Illiquid Liabilities
The International Capital Standard (ICS) introduces a new approach to discounting illiquid liabilities — one…
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Q&A: Martin Kramer, Managing Partner, Ceptar Consulting
The life settlement industry’s tertiary market is an opaque one, with many of the transactions…
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Are Recent Asset Manager-Owned Life Insurance Consolidator Divestments a Sign of Waning Interest?
Much of the conversation around the involvement of alternative asset managers in the life insurance…
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How Many Life Insurers Can the UK Pension Risk Transfer Market Sustain?
Earlier this month, Brookfield, under its Brookfield Wealth division, announced that it was entering the…
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