Browsing: 2026 – May
Industry group the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) has released its 2025 annual market data, showing that consumers who sold their life insurance policies through a LISA member received nearly nine times their cash surrender value.
£42m bulk purchase annuity transaction secures the pensions of 485 members.
£66m buy-in, which completed in March and covers 590 members, is the mutual’s second BPA transaction with the pension scheme of a fellow mutual and the first with a building society.
The brief addresses the significant consumer and market implications of restricting consumer rights found in many convertible term life insurance policies, including preventing the policy owner’s ability to sell their policy in the life settlement marketplace.
Longevity and Mortality Investor’s Editor’s Letter for the May 2026 issue.
New Prudential Regulation Authority consultation paper spells out the new capital charge for funded reinsurance deals.
Origination values in the proprietary reverse mortgage market in the US have exceeded the agency-backed market for the first time.
Both micro and macro impacts for life settlement market but counterparty fundamentals remain strong.
For life settlement markets, earlier diagnosis of chronic diseases may reduce projected life expectancy, thereby influencing the expected duration of premium payments and the timing of policy maturities.
Total US annuity sales were $104.6bn in the first quarter of 2026 according to preliminary results from LIMRA’s U.S. Individual Annuity Sales Survey, which represents 87% of the total US annuity market.