Author: Greg Winterton

Contributing Editor

Diversification Isn’t Just an Investing-Related Free Lunch

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The recent banking crisis on both sides of the Atlantic has shone a light in asset management circles on the due diligence process undertaken by end investors on their counterparties. A significant percentage of the venture capital industry faced a potential liquidity crisis, and consequently, investors are looking more closely at counterparty risks of all types, not only at the asset manager level, but through to the underlying fund or managed account portfolio level as well. Just like many other asset classes in the private markets, counterparty risk in the life risk investing world comes in many forms. In markets…

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Poll: Will Pandemic Bonds Ever Return?

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In April 2021, The World Bank announced that it had closed its Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) – the program that sold pandemic bonds to capital markets investors. The program raised a few hundred million dollars and 64 countries received payments to help them with their Covid-19 responses. However, many were critical of the program, and the announcement that the initiative has closed is no surprise to most, but there remains a significant funding gap for developing countries when the next pandemic hits. So, for our poll in March 2023, we asked Life Risk News readers, “Will Pandemic Bonds Ever…

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