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Opinion and observations from life risk industry insiders, academics and policy makers
I find it interesting to draw parallels between theories we see in the Life Expectancy space and what was considered…
More than 200 years ago, Equitable Life, the now defunct UK mutual life insurer, realised that they were making excess…
As long as there has been a life settlement market, there has been disagreement over the ‘best’ or appropriate mortality…
In this paper I will discuss mortality and life expectancy trends in the 20th and 21st centuries, developments that offer…
Investors in the life settlement industry’s secondary market work with a provider to source policies; indeed, most states that have…
This article is an abridged version of the original, which can be found at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2023/april/charlotte-gerken-speech-bulk-annuities-conference A lot is happening in…
In 2009 my colleague and I were contacted by a hedge fund manager in New York City that was interested…
It’s not unrealistic for institutional, end investors to expect – and receive – double digit IRRs from their allocations to…
As we enter the 4th year of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the number of infected survivors grows ever larger,…
The climate crisis has both direct and indirect impacts on human health, and we stand at a dire crossroads in terms of human health