Longevity risk transfer news
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Canada Life Re provides Athora with €4.7bn longevity reinsurance cover
Canada Life Reinsurance has taken EUR 4.7 billion of long-term longevity risk off the hands of life and annuities focused insurer Athora's European arm in a recent longevity reinsurance arrangement. Canada Life Re entered into the long-term longevity reinsurance agreement with Athora Netherlands, the Dutch arm of the insurer. The longevity reinsurance read the full article →
Hannover Re and AXA UK in £3bn longevity swap, a non-pensioner first
The AXA UK Group Pension Scheme has entered into a £3 billion longevity swap with reinsurance firm Hannover Re, in a new first for the longevity risk transfer market, a largely non-pensioner deal. Typically, longevity swaps have been focused on pensions in payment, so transferring the risk of longevity read the full article →
SCOR gets quota share longevity retro from Mangrove sidecar
France-headquartered global reinsurance firm SCOR has put in place a sidecar-like, quota share retrocession vehicle named Mangrove Insurance PCC Limited through which it transfers some of its longevity risk to third-party investors. Mangrove Insurance PCC Limited is one of SCOR's special purpose vehicles through which it taps the capital markets for read the full article →
MetLife reinsures $5bn of pension longevity risk for Rothesay Life
MetLife, Inc., one of the largest life and annuities insurance groups in the world, has announced that it completed two more UK based longevity reinsurance transactions with pensions insurance specialist Rothesay Life, covering $5 billion of risk. MetLife has been expanding its longevity risk transfer and reinsurance activities in the United read the full article →
Hymans Robertson appoints Mistry for Non-Traditional pension risk transfer
Hymans Robertson LLP, the pensions and financial services consultants, is anticipating more non-traditional risk transfer for pensions, including through the use of capital backed solutions and alternative insurance products. As a result, the company has promoted Kieran Mistry to the newly created position of Head of Non-Traditional Risk Transfer. In this role, read the full article →
Longevity swaps totalling £250bn forecast for next decade: Hymans
Hymans Robertson LLP, the pensions and financial services consultants, expects that longevity risk transfer activity will remain high in the United Kingdom across the coming decade, with as much as UK £250 billion of longevity swaps likely to be transacted by 2031. That's on top of a forecast £450 billion of read the full article →
Longevity swap pricing to remain attractive in 2021: WTW
Longevity swap pricing is expected to remain attractive through the coming year, as reinsurance capital to support large pension risk transfer deals remains abundant and slower mortality improvements feed into reinsurance pricing, according to Willis Towers Watson (WTW). After a busy year in 2020, when the market for longevity swaps and read the full article →
MetLife reinsured $2bn of longevity risk for L&G in 2020
MetLife, Inc., one of the largest life and annuities insurance groups in the world, has announced that it completed four UK based longevity reinsurance transactions with Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (Legal & General) in 2020. MetLife has been expanding its longevity risk transfer and reinsurance activities in the United read the full article →
Longevity risk transfer nears record. 2021 to be busy again despite pandemic: WTW
The market for longevity swaps and longevity risk transfer has hit forecasted volumes in 2020 despite the implications of the global COVID1-9 pandemic and Willis Towers Watson believes another busy year is ahead in 2021. The longevity de-risking market, where pensions transfer their longevity risk to global reinsurance markets, has proven read the full article →
BBC pension gets £3bn longevity swap from Zurich & Canada Life Re
The BBC Pension Scheme has added new benefit security for members with the completion of a UK £3 billion plus longevity swap transaction, with the assistance of global insurance firm Zurich and global reinsurance firm Canada Life Re. The longevity swap arrangement will cover over £3 billion of pensioner liabilities for read the full article →
