life reinsurance

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) expects to have its first third-party capitalised life reinsurance sidecar Ruby Re fully-deployed this year and the company is already evaluating a second iteration of the structure, an executive has said.

A recent report from ALIRT Insurance Research suggests that steady growth amongst Bermuda reinsurers and sidecars are responsible for a significant portion of the U.S. life insurance sector’s expansion in recent years.

France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japanese insurer Japan Post Insurance on the establishment of a reinsurance investment structure, which will feature subject business from both companies and be invested into by Japan Post Insurance.

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) of the Bank of England has published a discussion paper to gather feedback on how the UK’s insurance special purpose vehicle (ISPV) or ILS structures can play a role towards bringing in alternative capital to support life risks and reinsurance in the UK.

Discussing the FundedRe trend for UK life insurers and pensions to source offshore reinsurance for their risks, Vicky White, the Director for Prudential Policy at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) of the Bank of England, has highlighted the UK ILS structure and regulatory regime as one way that patient capital could be sourced and brought […]

According to senior executives at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the fee income flowing to the company from its third-party capitalised Ruby Re life reinsurance sidecar is already meaningful and while a new transaction was ceded to the sidecar in Q3 last year, the structure still had around two-thirds of its capital and capacity left […]

Farsight Partners, a specialist UK-based boutique advisory with a focus on life insurance-linked investment opportunities, has agreed a partnership with global alternative investment manager AB CarVal with up to $1 billion of life and health insurance related transactions in scope.

Ruby Re, Reinsurance Group of America’s (RGA) third-party life reinsurance sidecar, has now raised a total of $480 million in capital following the close of its second funding round, which is near the upper limit of the $400 million to $500 million target range for the Missouri-domiciled vehicle.

The life reinsurance industry in Bermuda has embraced the use of third-party capital structures and investor relationships, with sidecars now an established and growing feature of the market, Damian Cooper of PwC Bermuda explained in a recent video interview.

Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has returned to the reinsurance market, but this time with a focus on the asset intensive life and annuity reinsurance space, launching a new company, Malibu Life Re, that will operate as a hybrid sidecar-like structure to begin, but with a strategy to expand and become market-facing to transact with […]