life reinsurance

Langhorne Re, the joint-venture, third-party capital backed life and annuity reinsurance firm launched by specialist reinsurer and capital manager Renaissance Re (RenRe) and life focused reinsurer Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), has appointed its first senior executives.

The formation of Langhorne Re as a joint-venture, third-party capital backed life and annuity reinsurance firm will help to increase the capacity and reach of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), enabling it to access larger in-force transactions on its own, rather than alongside other reinsurers, CEO Anna Manning has said.

Specialist reinsurer and third-party capital manager Renaissance Re (RenRe) and life focused reinsurer Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) have teamed up to launch a third-party capital backed life and annuity reinsurance start-up named Langhorne Re.

Aon has hired Steve Bale from Legal & General to join its Risk Settlement team, the area of the brokerage that focuses on life and pension risk transfer, including longevity swaps and reinsurance.

Insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery, the founder of life book investor Resolution Group, is reported to be raising capital for a new Bermuda investment fund that will continue to target backing closed-books of life insurance business with reinsurance capital.

Reinsurance Group of America has reinsured a $2.3 billion annuities portfolio for a subsidiary of Swiss insurer Zurich, helping Zurich to reduce risk and better manage its capital, by offloading the liabilities associated with this legacy book of annuities business using reinsurance capital.

Phoenix Life Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of life insurance and reinsurance consolidator Phoenix Group Holdings Limited, has agreed to acquire the Abbey Life business from Deutsche Bank, a deal that will provide the troubled bank with £935m ($1.215 billion) in cash.

Growth in longevity reinsurance and longevity risk transfer business could help life reinsurers to elevate their returns on equity (ROE) above 10%, but at the same time there is an expectation that growing demand for longevity capacity will change reinsurers risk profiles, according to S&P.

The development of a “reinsurance platform” at Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd. is set to further expand the unit’s capabilities in the global life reinsurance and ILS space, according to Javier Rivas, Director of ILS at the firm.

Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America (Hannover Life Re or Hannover Re US) has announced the promotion of Dale Mensik to Senior Vice President, Financial Solutions, a role in which he will lead certain of the firm’s life reinsurance capital markets activities.