mortality risk

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have issued a press release regarding their involvement in the recently completed Vita Capital IV Ltd. mortality risk catastrophe bond issued on behalf of Swiss Re. It contains a little more detail on the risk modelling tools used to get the transaction to market which we thought would interest our readers. […]

Swiss Re have now published a press release on the completion of their latest catastrophe bond transaction so we felt it worth publishing some of their comments on the transaction. The latest Vital Capital IV Ltd. issuance closed earlier this week, as we wrote here, and secured them $180m of cover for mortality events such […]

Swiss Re have successfully closed the latest in their Vita series of mortality catastrophe bond deals and the two tranches have received their official ratings today. The transaction, which has been issued by their Vita Capital IV Ltd. Cayman Islands domiciled SPV, began marketing in mid-July seeking to secure $100m of cover under the mortality catastrophe […]

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security investment community will be delighted that they have some new opportunities to put their funds to work in transactions offering diversification opportunities today. First, Munich Re began marketing their Queen Street III Capital European windstorm catastrophe bond today and now Swiss Re are returning to the market with two […]

Swiss Re’s Vita Capital IV Ltd. mortality risk insurance-linked securities have had their rating downgraded by Standard & Poor’s due to the perceived heightened exposure that tsunami’s present to the transaction. Vita Capital IV Ltd’s Series III is an insurance-linked securitization which is exposed to increases in mortality in the U.S. and Japan over a […]

Scottish Re, the Bermuda based run-off life reinsurer, has announced the completion of the unwind of their 2005 Orkney I life insurance securitization transaction. The announcement also signifies the completion of the transfer of the block of business to Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America.

The Life & Longevity Markets Association (LLMA) announced a milestone in their plans for the development of a market in tradeable longevity and mortality risk instruments yesterday with the news that they were to take ownership of the LifeMetrics Index which was created by J.P. Morgan.

Hannover Re has bought a portfolio of reinsurance from Scottish Re which was part of a life insurance securitization issued under SPV Orkney Re. Through the acquisition Hannover Re now assumes the mortality risk of term life and endowment policies which were reinsured by Scottish Re during the underwriting years of 2000 to 2003.

The Series III notes of Swiss Re’s Vita Capital VI Ltd. mortality insurance-linked security transaction which was issued in October 2010 have been placed on CreditWatch negative by Standard & Poor’s as they have exposure to increased mortality levels in Japan.

Securis Investments, the specialist investment fund with a focus on insurance-linked securities, is reported (by the Financial Times) to be about to launch a public fundraising initiative as a listed closed-end version of the Securis 1 Master Fund to try to expand its capital and to attract new investors. It is said to be seeking […]