life reinsurance

Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has participated in the launch financing of a new life and annuity reinsurance firm named Martello Re Limited.

Global insurance and reinsurance giant Allianz has freed up roughly $4.1 billion in value after entering into a reinsurance arrangement to transfer $35 billion of fixed index annuity liabilities to entities of Sixth Street and Clive Cowdery’s Resolution Life.

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is actively working on transactions for its joint-venture, third-party capital backed, life and annuity reinsurance firm Langhorne Re, according to CEO Anna Manning.

Langhorne Re, the joint-venture, third-party capital backed life and annuity reinsurance firm launched by Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) in partnership with RenaissanceRe (RenRe), has promoted its Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel  Andrew Markus to become Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Bermuda.

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has announced the hiring of former Securis Investment Partners life insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist Luca Tres to the role of Head of Strategic Risk and Capital Life Solutions, EMEA, effective June 1st.

Resolution Life, the legacy life insurance investments arm of insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery’s Resolution Group, has raised a further $1.6 billion to fund growth through the acquisition and reinsurance of life insurance portfolios.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has been expanding its activities in life insurance-linked securities (ILS), with its life ILS volumes passing $1 billion and a recent deal tapping its Kubera Insurance (SAC) Ltd. as an issuer to transact with life ILS investors.

The arrival of a global pandemic accelerated transformations already taking place across the re/insurance industry, which in turn has created an opportunity for certain insurance-linked securities (ILS) market participants to play a greater role, according to Luca Tres, Partner leading the global life origination and structuring efforts at Securis Investment Partners.

Global investment manager Schroders has raised $420 million of capital from third-party institutional investors for a new life insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy that it has launched.

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) remains confident that its joint-venture, third-party capital backed life and annuity reinsurance firm Langhorne Re will secure its first transaction “in due course”, according to the company’s CEO Anna Manning.