longevity index

Longitude Exchange, the Bermuda-based digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk, and Dedomainia, a technology company offering longevity swap solutions, are to collaborate on index-based longevity hedging.

Longevity analytics firm, Club Vita has partnered with Bermuda-based insurtech Longitude Exchange, the world-first digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk, to improve both the transparency and efficiency of the longevity risk transfer market.

A world-first digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk is set to open in Bermuda, insurtech Longitude Exchange announced today.

NN Life, part of the Nationale-Nederlanden (NN Group), has entered into an index-based longevity hedge transaction with reinsurance firm Hannover Re, in a deal covering the insurer against longevity trend risk associated with around EUR 3 billion of its liabilities.

Dutch insurance, pensions and investments firm Delta Lloyd and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) have entered into their second index-based longevity swap transaction, which again covers underlying longevity reserves of around €12 billion.

With life expectancies set to continue improving, the OECD yesterday called for the capital markets to offer additional capacity for the hedging of longevity risk, but said that longevity risk instruments need to be standardised to increase transparency and liquidity.

Dutch insurance, pensions and investments firm Delta Lloyd has entered into an index-based longevity swap transaction covering €12 billion of its longevity reserves with Reinsurance Group of America.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a 230 page report looking at various issues affecting the pension markets and highlighting areas that need reforming in order for pension plans to meet their obligations and better serve their members. One of the issues covered in the bumper report is longevity risk and […]

The Life & Longevity Markets Association (LLMA), an industry group who have been working to make longevity a tradeable risk, have announced today the launch of its own four longevity indices. The LLMA Longevity Indices can be used as a reference for the transfer of longevity risk from those seeking to hedge to investors and […]