Browsing: Longevity Risk

Life Risk News’ Editor’s Letter for the February 2023 issue

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…

Life Risk News’ Editor’s Letter for the January 2023 issue

Actuarial Risk Management’s Cory Zass looks at what 2023 might have in store for the life settlement market

Scott Willkomm, CEO at Life Equity and Chair at ELSA, offers his thoughts on the association’s progress in 2022, plans for 2023 and views on the life settlement market

Life Risk News’ Editor’s Letter for the December 2022 issue

The concept of a life settlement investment is quite simple: the collected death benefits must exceed the cost (purchase price,…

Life Risk News’ Editor’s Letter for the November 2022 issue

The realisation that machine learning could be useful in prequal came around 2016 when carriers started to increase cost of insurance rates