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Q&A: Martin Kramer, Managing Partner, Ceptar Consulting
Q&A: Martin Kramer, Managing Partner, Ceptar Consulting
2025-04-14
The life settlement industry’s tertiary market is an opaque one, with many of the transactions being conducted on an over-the-counter, bilateral basis. Greg Winterton caught up with Martin Kramer, Man
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Canadian Pension Risk Transfer Market Set To Establish Higher Floor as Aggregate Deal Value Surges
Canadian Pension Risk Transfer Market Set To Establish Higher Floor as Aggregate Deal Value Surges
2025-04-14
Aggregate deal value in the Canadian pension risk transfer (PRT) market set a new record in 2024, according to a new report from consultants WTW. CAD$11bn worth of deals transacted last year, comforta
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Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Future Mortality Remains an Almost Impossible Task
Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Future Mortality Remains an Almost Impossible Task
2025-04-14
It has been a little more than five years since most of the world began locking down in an attempt to slow the spread of Covid-19 and reduce the burden on health systems.  The lockdowns had a mixed im
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Capital-Backed Journey Plans Re-Enter Defined Benefit Pension De-Risking Debate as New Rules Loom
Capital-Backed Journey Plans Re-Enter Defined Benefit Pension De-Risking Debate as New Rules Loom
2025-04-14
In 2020 the first capital-backed journey plan (CBJP) was completed, ushering a new way of transferring risk from the books of defined benefit schemes. The emergence of a de-risking structure underwrit
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Life Insurer Credit Risk in the News Again but Life Settlement Market Keeps On Keeping On
Life Insurer Credit Risk in the News Again but Life Settlement Market Keeps On Keeping On
2025-04-14
Those in the US life insurance industry, and its associated markets, might be forgiven for experiencing some level of credit risk fatigue, such has been the volume of articles and content produced in
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Arthur Cox Appoints Ailish Finnerty as Chair
Arthur Cox Appoints Ailish Finnerty as Chair
2025-04-01
Law firm Arthur Cox has appointed Ailish Finnerty as the firm’s next Chair. Finnerty will take up the position on 31st March 2025, succeeding Orla O’Connor, who is completing her six-year term as Chai
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InEvo Re Announces First Transaction With a UK Insurer to Support Pension Risk Transfer Business
InEvo Re Announces First Transaction With a UK Insurer to Support Pension Risk Transfer Business
2025-04-01
Bermuda-based InEvo Re, a reinsurer established by Macquarie Asset Management, has entered into an agreement with a leading UK insurer to reinsure their PRT liabilities, including both pensions in pay
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Anglo American Completes Bulk Purchase Annuity Buy-In Deal With Legal and General for Three Schemes
Anglo American Completes Bulk Purchase Annuity Buy-In Deal With Legal and General for Three Schemes
2025-03-31
Anglo American Services (UK) Ltd has completed buy-ins totalling £785m for three pension schemes it sponsors – the Tarmac UK Pension Scheme, the Tarmac ‘B’ Pension Scheme and the Anglo UK Pension Sche
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BT Pension Scheme Completes Two Longevity Swap Transactions
BT Pension Scheme Completes Two Longevity Swap Transactions
2025-03-31
The BT Pension Scheme, one of the UK’s largest private sector pension schemes with around 260,000 members and some £36bn of assets under management, recently completed two longevity reinsurance transa
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Taiyo Life Insurance Company, Fortitude Re in Annuity Reinsurance Agreement
Taiyo Life Insurance Company, Fortitude Re in Annuity Reinsurance Agreement
2025-03-31
Fortitude Re has closed a $4bn reinsurance transaction between its subsidiary, Fortitude International Reinsurance Company Ltd. and Taiyo Life Insurance Company.  Under the transaction, which is effec
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2024 Delivers Largest Number of UK Bulk Purchase Annuity Buy-In Transactions in a Single Calendar Year
2024 Delivers Largest Number of UK Bulk Purchase Annuity Buy-In Transactions in a Single Calendar Year
2025-03-31
There were 299 defined benefit pension scheme buy-ins completed in 2024 – the largest ever number of transactions completed in a single year, according to analysis by Hymans Robertson. This is an incr
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Actuarial Risk Management Hires Liam Bodemeaid to Expand Life Settlement Advisory Services
Actuarial Risk Management Hires Liam Bodemeaid to Expand Life Settlement Advisory Services
2025-03-31
Actuarial Risk Management Ltd, a provider of advisory actuarial consulting services, is expanding its presence in the life settlement industry with the addition of Liam Bodemeaid.   Based in ARM’s new
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