Author: Chris Wells

Managing Editor

Editor’s Letter – Volume 3, Issue 10, October 2024

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Download Life Risk News Volume 3, Issue 10, October 2024 The US Federal Reserve cut the country’s interest rate by 50 basis points in mid-September, the first reduction since the spring of 2020. The impact will be felt across many private asset classes, but what of the impact to the life settlement market? Greg Winterton spoke to Jonas Martenson, Founder and Sales Director at Ress Capital, Rob Haynie, Managing Director at Life Insurance Settlements and Phil Hall, Director of Policy Trading at Longevity Holdings to learn more in Just How Much Influence Do Interest Rates Have on the Life Settlement…

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Editor’s Letter – Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2024

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Download Life Risk News Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2024 Defined benefit pension schemes seeking an insurer-led buy-out will, in many instances, have to divest themselves of any illiquid assets they hold in their investment portfolio. With buy-out activity almost touching £50bn in the UK’s bulk purchase annuity market in 2023, the divestment of illiquid assets has become a frenzied process. Samantha Downes spoke to André Kerr, Partner at XPS Group, Kunal Sood, Managing Director for Defined Benefit Solutions at Standard Life, Joe Evans, Senior Vice President at Redington and Ajith Balan Nair, Head of Asset Class and Manager Research…

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Editor’s Letter – Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2024

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Download Life Risk News Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2024 The European Life Settlement Association (ELSA, publisher of Life Risk News) has published its latest Licensed Provider Matrix, which documents the states of the US that various life settlement providers are licensed to do business in. Greg Winterton spoke to James W. Maxson, Partner at EM3 Law and Bryan Nicholson, Executive Director at the Life Insurance Settlement Association, to get their thoughts on the provider space in Consistent Licensed Provider Landscape Indicative of Maturation of Life Settlement Industry.  The Longevity Index for England (LIFE Index), developed by a team led…

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ELSA Announces Agenda for Secondary Life Markets Conference 2024

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The European Life Settlement Association (ELSA), the leading advocacy group for life settlement investors, has announced the agenda for its upcoming Secondary Life Markets Conference 2024. Held in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday 12th September, the agenda for this year’s event has been designed to cover the most pressing topics impacting both investors with exposure to the market and asset managers investing in the space. This year’s event will begin with Progress and Plans: The Past And Upcoming 12 Months at ELSA, a keynote address from Corry Capital Advisors’ Founder and CEO Bill Corry, who is also ELSA’s current Chair, before…

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Editor’s Letter – Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024

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Download Life Risk News Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024 It’s now a year since UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority brought in its new Consumer Duty, a regulation requiring all financial services firms to ‘act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers’ for all new (and now, closed) product offerings. While there are fundamental benefits of this to the country’s equity release market, it’s not a needle mover in terms of greasing the wheels of supply. Greg Winterton spoke to Ben Grainger, Partner at EY, for his thoughts on the topic in UK Consumer Duty Barely Impacting an Equity…

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