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Life reinsurance news
Life reinsurance industry news, analysis and insights.
The life reinsurance market is a core piece of the sector and life risks, from mortality, to longevity, annuity risk, and more, are a key diversifier for the large global reinsurance carriers, while there are also numerous large specialist life and annuity reinsurers in the sector as well.
Our life reinsurance market news stories cover happenings in the life reinsurance industry, people moves, new company launches, life reinsurance company results, product innovation and more.
Thailand seeks foreign re/insurance investors after relaxing legislation
23rd January 2017
Thailand’s Ministry of Finance has relaxed legislation to attract foreign investors and promote stability within its insurance and reinsurance industry. Under the new measures, current limits on foreign shareholding and board membership for life and non-life insurance companies will be removed or broadened. A licensed insurance company can now apply for up to ... Read the full article
SCOR provides reinsurance for streamlined longevity hedge
20th January 2017
French reinsurance firm SCOR has participated in a UK£300 million longevity swap transaction, providing reinsurance capital to back 80% of the transaction, while insurer Zurich retained the remaining longevity risk. It's the first so-called streamlined longevity swap deal that SCOR has participated in, with the transaction having been facilitated through a ... Read the full article
Reinsurance Group of America CEO joins Sun Life Financial board
15th December 2016
Greig Woodring, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), one of the world's leading life reinsurers, has been appointed to Sun Life Financial's Board of Directors effective January 1st, 2017. As well as the addition of Woodring, Sun Life Financial also announced that Stephanie Coyles, a strategic consultant and ... Read the full article
A.M. Best maintains stable outlook for U.S. life reinsurance market
13th December 2016
International financial services ratings agency, A.M. Best, has maintained its stable outlook for the U.S. life reinsurance marketplace, in spite of the company recently revising its outlook on the U.S. life/annuity industry to negative, and maintaining its negative outlook on the global reinsurance market. A recent A.M. Best briefing on ... Read the full article
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