Browsing: 2026 – July
General pace of activity picking up after slow first quarter of 2026.
Continued improvements in organ transplant techniques and procedures are increasing the success rate and post-operation life expectancy.
Complexity in modelling cash flows and risks in longevity-linked assets means challenges for asset managers looking to source capital from US insurers.
Longevity and Mortality Investor’s Editor’s Letter for the July 2026 issue.
£5m transaction, completed in June 2026, secures the pensions of 14 deferred and 34 pensioner members of the scheme and completes the buy-in of all scheme liabilities.
£35m bulk purchase annuity buy-in with PIC. The transaction secures the benefits of all 253 scheme members.
$3.8bn in buy-out and buy-in sales in the first quarter of 2026 reflects a 47% decline compared to the same period last year.
Constellation Institutional Markets, through its affiliated insurance companies, now provides group annuity contract solutions designed to help plan sponsors reduce pension risk, improve balance sheet certainty, and continuation of participant benefits.
Canada Life has delivered a £48m full-scheme bulk purchase annuity buy-in with a pension scheme in the oil and gas industry, securing the future benefits for more than 500 pensioner and deferred members.
Total ceded reserves to sidecars or entities engaged in sidecar-like activity increased to more than $90bn in 2025 from $55bn in 2023.