There is plenty of investment work still to do even for those US plan sponsors that are in the last mile of their buy-out journey.

The latest data on excess mortality in England, published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, shows that there were significantly fewer deaths among the older cohorts and the working-age population as well.

New policies that will fuel future trades in the life settlement market continue to be issued in healthy volumes, but in real terms, are slowly contracting.

Actuarial Guideline 55 is designed to provide regulators with more transparency into the asset adequacy of offshore asset-intensive life reinsurance structures.