medical benefit

The first insurance-linked security transaction to come to market in 2013 has now completed successfully. The Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1) medical benefit linked securitization provides health insurer Aetna with a $150m four-year source of fully-collateralized excess of loss reinsurance coverage on a portion of its group commercial health insurance business.

Once again the demand for a new insurance-linked securities transaction has been significantly above the volume of notes being issued enabling the price to be pushed down to well below the range it was initially marketed at. Aetna’s latest Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1) medical benefit linked securitization saw a great deal of demand […]

The first insurance-linked security transaction to come to market in 2013 is the fourth in life insurer Aetna Life Insurance Company’s series of Vitality Re medical benefit linked securitization deals. Vitality Re IV Ltd. (Series 2013-1) is being marketed and seeks to issue at least $150m of medical benefit claims linked ILS notes to investors […]

A few weeks ago in January we wrote that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s had placed the notes issued by Vitality Re Ltd. and Vitality Re II Ltd. on CreditWatch with positive implications. The two medical benefit ratio insurance-linked securities deals sponsored by Aetna had experienced positive claims trends and S&P wrote that they could […]

The variable rate note programme and securities issued by the Vitality Re III Ltd. special purpose vehicle have been admitted for listing to the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. The recently completed medical benefit linked insurance-linked security transaction provides insurer Aetna with a source of reinsurance cover against medical benefit claims breaching pre-defined trigger points on […]

Aetna have completed their third insurance-linked security transaction which allows them to transfer the risk of catastrophic levels of medical benefit claims hitting the firm. The $150m medical benefit linked ILS issued through Cayman Island domiciled Vitality Re III Ltd. provides catastrophe bond type cover to Aetna subsidiary Health Re Inc. against medical benefits claims […]

Hot on the heels of the launch of a third Vitality Re transaction which we covered here earlier, the two previous Vitality Re transactions issued by Aetna to cover health insurance risks linked to medical benefit claims ratios have both been placed on CreditWatch with positive implications by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s. S&P cites […]

Aetna Life Insurance are returning to the insurance-linked security market to issue a third in their Vitality series of medical benefit linked securitizations. Vitality Re III Ltd. Series 2012-1, which is being issued through a Caymans Islands domiciled SPV, is seeking to issue $150m of medical benefit linked notes to investors in two tranches. The […]

Standard & Poor’s has issued a press release which provides commentary on their approach to rating medical benefit linked securitization transactions such as the Vitality Re Ltd. and Vitality Re II Ltd. deals which were issued on behalf of insurer Aetna. The commentary provides some information on the factors that S&P consider during their analysis […]

Aetna have completed their latest insurance-linked security transaction with a successful issuance under their Vitality Re II Ltd. Cayman Islands SPV. They’ve secured $150m of catastrophe bond type cover for their Health Re Inc. subsidiary making this their second medical benefit insurance-linked security transaction.