Author: Greg Winterton

Life Risk News Q&A: Ryan McTernan, Senior Managing Director at Fifth Season Investments shares his take on the state of the life settlement market as we begin 2025.

When all is said and done, 2024 could end up delivering aggregate premium at or close to the US pension risk transfer market’s current banner year of 2022, where $51.9bn worth of deals was written in the space.

Letter to insurance company CEOs references ongoing monitoring of funded reinsurance.

US life insurance application activity finished 2024 essentially flat at -0.1% year-to-date compared with 2023.

New report lifts the lid on investor sentiment towards life settlements.

The firm has built a team of more than 20 people focussed on bulk purchase annuity transactions and completed two deals with external pension schemes in Q4 last year.

Four Officers elected by life settlement industry group for 2025.

The latest buy-in secures the pensions of almost 5,000 pensioners and dependants and over 3,000 deferred policyholders.

The Broadstone Sirius Index finds positive funding progression across both schemes in December.

The transaction, which concluded in September 2024, secured the benefits of 463 pensioners and 241 deferred members.