Author: Greg Winterton

Life Risk News Q&A: Perry Koons, Director of Capital Markets at life settlement provider Maple Life Financial, offers his thoughts on the state of the life settlement market at the halfway point of 2025.

At the end of June, the Continuous Mortality Investigation in the UK, which produces mortality data and analysis, issued its latest update, CMI_2024, which showed an increase in cohort life expectancies at age 65 in England and Wales.

The deal, worth $800m, secures the retirement benefits of over 1,700 retirees and over 3,000 deferred members.

In total, the transactions insure the benefits of 1,127 pensioners and dependants as well as 1,365 deferred members,

Chariot Re will reinsure approximately $10bn of liabilities, including structured settlement annuity contracts and group annuity contracts associated with pension risk transfers originated by MetLife.

The transaction, which was completed in June 2025, secures the benefits of over 3,500 members of the scheme

New report says that Bermuda accounted for over 60% of reserves ceded for L/A transactions effective in 2023 and 2024.

CMI_2024 produces cohort life expectancies at age 65 that are about three months higher for males and about two weeks higher for females than in the previous version of the CMI model.

The portfolio comprised approximately 70 life insurance policies with an aggregate face value of more than $500m.

The deal secures the pensions of around 500 plan members.