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The ratings for insurer Unum’s outstanding Northwind life insurance-linked securities (ILS) have been affirmed again, as the ability of available cash flows to service the notes remains adequate, according to A.M. Best.

Unum’s outstanding Northwind insurance-linked securities (ILS) have ben affirmed, as the performance of the first-of-its-kind deal is now deemed in line with expectations by rating agency Moody’s.

Alternative sources of reinsurance capital and their appetite to access diversified sources of insurance and reinsurance risk, including life risks, are expected to offset the price hardening effects of consolidation in the life reinsurance sector, according to Deloitte.

Insurtech start-up Ledger Investing, which counts ex-AIG capital markets head Samir Shah as its CEO, is in the process of completing a $5 million round of seed funding to help it build out its insurance risk securitization platform and expand its team.

Rating agency A.M. Best has affirmed the ratings on the $800m tranche of life insurance-linked securities (ILS) issued by Northwind Holdings LLC., on behalf of sponsoring life insurer the Unum Group.

Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed the ratings on the $800m of life insurance-linked securities (ILS) which were issued by Northwind Holdings LLC., on behalf of sponsoring life insurer Unum Group.

The U.S. National Association of Insurance Commissioners has received a proposal to change the capital treatment of catastrophe bonds for life insurers investing in them, which it believes could open the floodgates for a wave of new capital to enter the ILS sector.

Rating agency Moody’s says that the recent embedded value life securitisation deal completed by U.S. life reinsurer, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. (RGA) is credit negative, as it effectively discounts the future profits that could have been made from the closed-book.

U.S. life reinsurer, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. (RGA), has successfully completed its life reinsurance embedded value securitisation transaction, raising $300m from the sale of the notes through issuer Chesterfield Financial Holdings LLC.

Life reinsurer Reinsurance Group of America Inc. is marketing a life reinsurance embedded value securitisation transaction, through an issuer named Chesterfield Financial Holdings LLC, as it seeks to recognise some of the profitability of a defined book of life business.