Browsing: 2026 – March

£7m bulk purchase annuity buy-in covers all remaining members not previously insured and represents a further step in reducing risk for the Scheme.

New premium for single-premium products — both buy-out and buy-in contracts — surged 132% in the fourth quarter to $28bn, according to LIMRA’s U.S. Group Annuity Risk Transfer Sales Survey.

$2bn liability longevity reinsurance transaction is the firm’s first covering US retirees.

Milliman’s latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index show that during February, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process climbed 10 basis points, from 100.4% to 100.5% of a plan’s accounting liabilities.

£105m full-scheme bulk purchase annuity buy-in with Canada Life secures the future benefits of over 350 deferred members and over 1,450 pensioners.

Together, the transactions cover an amount of approximately €8bn in pension liabilities and roughly half of Achmea Pension & Life Insurance’s longevity risk exposure.

The transaction, which completed in mid-February 2026, secures the benefits of eight deferred members and marks the first transaction completed under Isio’s PenUltimate Micro framework.

CMI_2025 produces cohort life expectancies at age 65 that are about eight weeks higher for males and about six weeks higher for females than in the previous version of the CMI Model, CMI_2024.

Longevity and Mortality Investor’s Editor’s Letter for the March 2026 issue.

Delaware Supreme Court opinion says that the three-year statute of limitations applies to estates seeking to recover the death benefit from a STOLI policy.