embedded value

Aurigen Capital Limited has completed its second embedded value life insurance securitization, in a $175m (CAD $210m) deal issued through Valins I Limited. The firm has also redeemed in full its previous deal, the 2011 issued CAD$120m Vecta I Ltd.

Rating agency Moody’s says that the recent embedded value life securitisation deal completed by U.S. life reinsurer, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. (RGA) is credit negative, as it effectively discounts the future profits that could have been made from the closed-book.

U.S. life reinsurer, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. (RGA), has successfully completed its life reinsurance embedded value securitisation transaction, raising $300m from the sale of the notes through issuer Chesterfield Financial Holdings LLC.

Life reinsurer Reinsurance Group of America Inc. is marketing a life reinsurance embedded value securitisation transaction, through an issuer named Chesterfield Financial Holdings LLC, as it seeks to recognise some of the profitability of a defined book of life business.

Resolution Life, the life focused arm of insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery’s Resolution Group, has set up a new permanent capital structure which aims to acquire and manage in-force portfolios of life insurance to benefit its institutional investors.

SCOR Global Life, a subsidiary of French reinsurer SCOR SE, has completed a VIF (Value of In Force) life reinsurance transaction with Mediterráneo Vida, a Spanish insurer owned by Banco Sabadell.

Global law firm Hogan Lovells assisted French reinsurer SCOR on its recent life reinsurance transaction. Hogan Lovells acted as an advisor to SCOR on the deal which saw SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Ireland plc, an Irish subsidiary of SCOR Global Life SE, enter into a life reinsurance transaction with leading Spanish life insurance company, BBVA […]

The life insurance side of the alternative risk financing, transfer and insurance-linked securities market is alive and well with reasonable deal flow in 2012 and a positive outlook to 2013, according to a recent paper on the subject published by actuarial focused firm Milliman Inc. Milliman includes a number of different structures within the life […]

SCOR Global Life Reinsurance Ireland plc, an Irish subsidiary of French reinsurer SCOR Global Life SE, has entered into a life reinsurance transaction with a leading Spanish life insurance company, BBVA Seguros. The transaction sees SCOR reinsure a whole block of life reinsurance risks underwritten by BBVA and the deal takes the structure of a […]

Interesting news today as Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. entered into a reinsurance agreement with Spanish insurance company VidaCaixa, Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spain’s CaixaBank S.A. We don’t always cover straight reinsurance transactions but in this case it is interesting as this reinsurance agreement see’s Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway […]