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Opinion and observations from life risk industry insiders, academics and policy makers
The option to sell one’s life insurance policy in the life settlement market is an attractive one. Whether individuals need…
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shock to health and life expectancy, disrupting the pattern of mortality improvement seen…
Interest in the life settlement asset class, the purchase of an unwanted and unneeded life insurance policy for a lump…
Actuarial Risk Management’s Cory Zass looks at what 2023 might have in store for the life settlement market
Celent’s Rob Norris offers his views on terminology in the insurtech market and what he real technology to emphasise is
In the past 40 years, life expectancy has increased significantly as a result of a range of factors, including advancements…
The concept of a life settlement investment is quite simple: the collected death benefits must exceed the cost (purchase price,…
The realisation that machine learning could be useful in prequal came around 2016 when carriers started to increase cost of insurance rates
Like many things in life, longevity markets have followed broad cycles. Industry veterans will remember a particularly painful turn in…
Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes in which the employer bears the investment and longevity risk have been on a downward…