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IAIS Publishes a Draft Issues Paper on Structural Shifts in the Life Insurance Sector for Consultation

2025-03-19

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) today published a draft Issues Paper on structural shifts in the life insurance sector for consultation. The paper provides a comprehensi

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US Single-Premium Pension Risk Transfer Sales Leap 14% to $51.8bn in 2024

2025-03-19

Total US single-premium pension risk transfer (PRT) premium was $51.8bn in 2024, up 14% from prior year’s results and less than 1% below the record set in 2022, according to LIMRA’s U.S. Group Annuity

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Spotlight on Longevity Capital Models

2025-03-19

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Falls: Significance in Life Expectancy Underwriting

2025-03-19

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Q&A: Roger Lawrence, Managing Director, W L Consulting

2025-03-19

In the summer of 2024, the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority announced the latest planned iteration of their insurance stress tests – now branded Life Insurance Stress Tests (LIST) –

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Central Bank of Ireland AIFMD Q&A Update Provides Boost to Alternative Investment Funds

2025-03-19

Ireland’s status as a popular European domicile for life settlement funds is rooted in the country’s double tax treaty with the US which allows Irish investment vehicles, such as Section 110 companies

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Recent Developments in Kidney Disease Treatment to Have Little Short Term Impact on Life Expectancy

2025-03-19

The extent to which someone has chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the actual stage of the CKD is indicated by the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a measure of how well the kidneys filter b

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Questions Over UK Pension Risk Transfer Market as Government Mulls Defined Benefit Pension Surplus Changes

2025-03-19

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ announcement at the end of January that she wants to unshackle billions of pounds locked in defined benefit (DB) pension fund surpluses has raised questio

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How Many Life Insurers Can the UK Pension Risk Transfer Market Sustain?

2025-03-19

Earlier this month, Brookfield, under its Brookfield Wealth division, announced that it was entering the UK’s pension risk transfer (PRT) market, having gone through the approval process carried out b

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The Retreat York Pension Scheme Completes Buy-In With Royal London

2025-03-03

The Retreat York Pension Scheme has completed a £30m full scheme bulk purchase annuity buy-in transaction with Royal London. The deal secured the benefits of 202 pensioners and 108 deferred members.

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US Senior Home Equity Hits $14trn in Second Quarter

2025-03-03

Homeowners aged 62 and older in the US saw their housing wealth increase by $600bn in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest quarterly release of the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage

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Life Insurance Settlement Association Elects Neal Jacobs as New Chair

2025-03-03

Industry group the Life Insurance Settlement Association has elected Neal Jacobs, Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets at Coventry, as its new board Chair. Jacobs succeeds John Dallas, CEO of

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