longevity

Alternatives and re/insurance focused investment firm Vida Capital has been rebranded as Obra Capital and has added a new strategy of relevance to our readers, called Insurance Special Situations investing and it includes a specialty reinsurance focus.

Reinsurance firm Swiss Re is considering allowing third-party capital sources to enter its Admin Re unit in some form, according to comments made at the reinsurers recent investor day. The reinsurer would consider allowing third-party capital providers to participate in a transaction to buy new blocks of life business.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the insurance-linked securities market was only about catastrophe risk securitization if you looked at our Deal Directory and in recent months it has been. However, according to panelists at ratings agency Standard & Poor’s recent Insurance 2012 Conference there’s life in life insurance-linked securitization yet, particularly in the securitization […]

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 […]

The UK’s Royal County of Berkshire pension fund, who completed their first longevity hedge with Swiss Re back in December 2009, are looking to repeat the experience and have issued a request for proposals for a second longevity hedge. The 2009 transaction was the first time a public sector pension fund had looked to hedge […]

The International Monetary Fund has published a chapter of its Global Financial Stability Report which discusses ‘The Financial Impacts of Longevity Risk’. In it they warns that the U.S. and other governments need to acknowledge the size of the longevity risks they are facing, put in place mechanisms for improved risk sharing between governments, private […]

2011 could be a record year for pension scheme risk transfer deals as the desire to de-risk or offload risks including longevity grows among pension fund managers. So far 2011 has seen significant volumes in the pension buy-in and buy-out arena and also longevity swaps. By the end of 2011 pension consultants Hymans Robertson expect […]

Prudential Retirement has announced the completion of their largest longevity reinsurance transaction to date, helping them to sustain expansion of their pension risk transfer business. The $723m (UK£450m) deal saw Prudential provide reinsurance of longevity risk to Rothesay Life and sister company Paternoster (both Goldman Sachs subsidiaries).

Legal & General, one of the largest insurance and financial services groups in the UK, has entered into the largest buy-out of a pension schemes liabilities through a £1.1 billion ($1.8 billion) bulk annuity contract with the T&N Retirement Benefits Scheme trustees. The transaction is actually a buy-in which transitions to a buy-out in due […]