mortality

Pension Corporation, a UK insurer of pension plans and one of the largest players in the longevity risk transfer and pension de-risking markets, is seeking additional funding totalling UK£400m from an investment of fresh capital from Luxembourg based specialist investment fund Reinet.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has transferred a portion of its pensioner members liabilities to Pension Corporation (PIC) in a buy-in transaction which see’s PIC insure all their current pension scheme members and automatically insure future pensioners for the next five years. The innovative deal effectively minimises the LSE’s pension risks over a fixed term […]

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.

The life reinsurance landscape is an ever changing beast particularly right now due to the sluggish economic recovery and ever changing regulatory environment according to Standard & Poor’s. In an article published yesterday S&P look at the regulatory environment and what they see the likely changes being.

The catastrophe bond market issuers and investors will all be keeping a watchful eye on the development of the swine flu outbreak with some nervousness. Why you might wonder, given that the vast majority of our coverage of the catastrophe bond market relates to natural disasters such as windstorms and earthquakes? Well, there is another […]