life insurance

Fitch Ratings says in a press release that UK life insurers are expected to increase their pension exposure from corporates looking to offload pension fund risks including longevity. There is an opportunity for life insurers to grow their business by participating in pension risk transfer with one of the main areas of potential growth in […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re has announced that it is going to sell off its U.S. Admin Re® business for $600m in cash as it seeks to unlock capital that is tied up in it. Total cash proceeds from the sale will be $900m after a pre-closing dividend. Admin Re provides risk and capital management solutions by […]

Michael Stahel and his portfolio management team, who currently manage insurance-linked securities funds for Swiss based investment manager and private bank Clariden Leu but are soon to move to their new home at LGT Capital Management, are planning to launch two new insurance-linked strategy funds in response to demand from investors. Currently the team manages […]

Some further details are gradually emerging on the Vecta I Ltd. embedded value life insurance securitization thanks to press releases from some of the transactions participants. The first embedded value deal to come to market since 2007, Vecta I Ltd. is also the first insurance-linked securitization of Canadian life insurance embedded value.

The first 144A embedded value life insurance securitization deal to be issued since 2007 (see graph below) has now completed. The Vecta I Ltd. transaction, which enables Aurigen Reinsurance to monetise the cash flows associated with life insurance and mortality business it has reinsured, was rated today by Standard & Poor’s as a C$120m tranche of […]

Well that didn’t last long. The life insurance-linked notes issued by Avondale Securities SA. have been placed back on CreditWatch negative by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s after the long-term counterparty credit rating of the Bank of Ireland was placed on CreditWatch negative.

Ratings agency Fitch Ratings have finally downgraded the ratings or Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Series 2010-09, a life securitization type transaction which provides Goldman Sachs with a mortality hedge for a defined block of life insurance. The Signum Finance deal has been threatened for a while and Fitch placed the ratings on watch negative back […]

An embedded value life securitization transaction has been launched on behalf of Aurigen Reinsurance who are seeking through this Vecta I Ltd. deal to monetise the cash flows associated with life insurance and mortality business it has reinsured. Embedded value life securitization transactions enable sponsors to realise the present value of future cash flows by […]

The Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Series 2010-09 transaction which provides Goldman Sachs with a mortality hedge for a defined block of life insurance has been put back on a Rating Watch Negative status by Fitch Ratings. We first wrote about this interesting insurance-linked securitization almost a year ago and then updated you on its status […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s have removed the ratings of two tranches of life insurance-linked notes issued by Avondale Securities SA. from CreditWatch as a correction to an administrative error. The notes issued by Avondale Securities were designed to transfer a block of life insurance risk to the capital markets through securitisation to allow the […]