Browsing: Life Insurance

The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the structural shifts within the life insurance sector.

Many firms maintain a longevity risk capital model, making sure the methodology remains relevant and proportionate to the risk. We shine a spotlight on these models here, considering how they may evolve with post-pandemic data and Solvency II reforms.

W L Consulting’s Roger Lawrence offers his views on the UK’s Life Insurance Stress Test.

Universal life insurance applications declined -18.5% versus February last year.

RGA is to reinsure $32bn of a diversified mix of life insurance products and expects to deploy $1.5bn of capital into this reinsurance transaction at closing.

Strong US annuity sales has led to increased formations of sidecars by life insurance companies to manage the growth and maintain risk-based capitalisation levels.

The third of our reviews of the Life Insurers Fact Book 2024 focusses on how factors that could impact the life settlement market are developing. Key amongst these are the surrender volumes, which help indicate the volumes of policies that could be available to trade, and the rate of new life insurance business which will provide the fuel for the market in future

Taking place on Tuesday, 20th May, 2025 in London’s Canary Wharf district, the Life ILS Conference 2025 will be the event’s sixth edition.

The outlook for metastatic melanoma continues to improve, driven by advancements in therapeutic strategies and ongoing research.

As was the case last year, the overall message here is one of consistency. As counterparties for longevity and mortality risk investors, US life insurers remain strong.