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On 15 June 2023 the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) published a letter to bulk annuity insurers regarding their use of…
As long as there has been a life settlement market, there has been disagreement over the ‘best’ or appropriate mortality…
More than 200 years ago, Equitable Life, the now defunct UK mutual life insurer, realised that they were making excess…
In this paper I will discuss mortality and life expectancy trends in the 20th and 21st centuries, developments that offer…
Investors in the life settlement industry’s secondary market work with a provider to source policies; indeed, most states that have…
In 2009 my colleague and I were contacted by a hedge fund manager in New York City that was interested…
This article is an abridged version of the original, which can be found at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2023/april/charlotte-gerken-speech-bulk-annuities-conference A lot is happening in…
As we enter the 4th year of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the number of infected survivors grows ever larger,…
It’s not unrealistic for institutional, end investors to expect – and receive – double digit IRRs from their allocations to…
The option to sell one’s life insurance policy in the life settlement market is an attractive one. Whether individuals need…