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PRTs in the Netherlands have been steadily increasing since the government passed the Futures of Pensions Act.
The Abbey Life Assurance Company Limited Staff Pension Scheme has completed a £200m bulk purchase annuity transaction with Standard Life.
The transaction, which completed in April 2026, covers the pensions of 1,584 members, which includes c.600 deferred members and approximately 900 current pensioners and dependants.
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.
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.
The transaction, completed in March 2026, secures the benefits of 16 deferred and 24 pensioner members of the scheme and completes the buy-in of all scheme liabilities.
The equity release market recorded a slowdown in Q1 2026, as global uncertainty weighed on consumer decision-making and delayed completions, according to new data from UK industry group the Equity Release Council.