longevity reinsurance

Bermuda-based reinsurance firm PartnerRe and Zurich, the global insurance carrier, have backed a £1 billion longevity swap transaction for a UK pension scheme sponsored by a Fortune 500 firm.

The UBS (UK) Pension and Life Assurance Scheme has added another £500 million to an in-force longevity swap arrangement, expanding it to provide £1.9 billion of protection.

Longitude Exchange, the Bermuda-based digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk, and Dedomainia, a technology company offering longevity swap solutions, are to collaborate on index-based longevity hedging.

Longevity analytics firm, Club Vita has partnered with Bermuda-based insurtech Longitude Exchange, the world-first digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk, to improve both the transparency and efficiency of the longevity risk transfer market.

A world-first digital marketplace for trading in index-based longevity risk is set to open in Bermuda, insurtech Longitude Exchange announced today.

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) has completed a longevity reinsurance transaction with NN Life covering €4 billion of underlying reserves for the largest life insurance company in the Netherlands.

France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has provided the capacity to back a UK £5.5 billion longevity swap arrangement for one of Lloyds Banks pension schemes, the reinsurers’ largest longevity reinsurance deal so far.

MetLife, Inc., one of the largest life and annuities insurance groups in the world, has provided reinsurance to cover $2.4 billion of pension fund related longevity risk for European pension and life consolidator Phoenix Group.

Metlife and Zurich have collaborated with Aon’s Risk Settlement Group to complete a US $3.5 billion transfer of longevity risk for a UK pension scheme, through an intermediated longevity swap and reinsurance arrangement.

The market for pension risk transfer, across longevity swaps and bulk annuity arrangements, is forecast to see a bumper UK £65 billion of deals in 2022, with strong growth on the longevity swap side anticipated, according to WTW (Willis Towers Watson), while more third-party capital involvement is also expected.