Author: Erik Pickett

Over the years, we have witnessed the successful commoditisation of several risks, including credit risk, interest rate risk and property catastrophe risk, opening up their trade to capital markets investors. Similar commoditisation of longevity risk has been slow to take off, despite many seeing a significant need for more risk takers in the market to boost capacity to service the world-wide c$80tr of longevity-linked liabilities. During May’s ELSA Life ILS conference, Jennifer Haid, CEO of Club Vita hosted an expert discussion with Joyeeta Kanungo (Phoenix), Stephen Richards (Longevitas), Scott Willkomm (Life Equity) and Phil Kane (Leadenhall Capital) on the current…