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RGA study highlights potential of incretin-based therapies to improve global health outcomes
13th November 2025
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, a provider of life and health reinsurance solutions, has released new research that evaluates the potential effects of incretin-based therapies, including GLP-1 medications, on mortality and morbidity. These drugs, used for both weight management and diabetes treatment, were assessed across four regions: the United States, United ... Read the full article
GLP-1 drugs could cut mortality rates in US and UK, Swiss Re says
18th September 2025
Swiss Re, a reinsurance company based in Zurich, has released new research suggesting that GLP-1 weight-loss medications could substantially reduce mortality rates in the United States and the United Kingdom over the next two decades. According to the company’s projections, if these drugs are widely adopted and combined with healthy lifestyle ... Read the full article
Equitable takes step to mitigate mortality risk with major reinsurance deal
15th August 2025
Equitable Holdings, a financial services company specialising in retirement, wealth management, and protection solutions, has recently announced that it has completed a major strategic transaction aimed at substantially reducing its exposure to mortality-related risk. On July 31, the company finalised a reinsurance agreement with Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), which is ... Read the full article
Canada Life Re to cease new business for US traditional life mortality risk reinsurance
25th June 2025
Canada Life Reinsurance, part of financial services holding company Great-West Lifeco, has decided to stop new business for its US traditional life mortality risk reinsurance line, known as U.S. Trad Life, as the firm looks to focus on its core markets. The reinsurer explains that a key driver of its decision ... Read the full article
Long-term COVID effects may lead to elevated mortality in US & UK: Swiss Re
16th September 2024
If the ongoing impact of COVID-19 is not curtailed, excess mortality rates in the general population may remain up to 3% higher than pre-pandemic levels in the US and 2.5% in the UK by 2033, as per a report from the Swiss Re Institute. According to the report, typically, all-cause excess ... Read the full article
Mortality models “creaking” under the strain of disruption in wake of pandemic, says LCP
23rd April 2024
A new report released by Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) has highlighted significant disruption to mortality trends in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing pressures on the healthcare system. The firm has addressed the challenge that this disruption presents to traditional actuarial models used by the industry for ... Read the full article
Athene reinsures Japanese life risks for FWD. Swiss Re provides mortality retro
27th November 2023
Life and retirement specialist Athene Holding Ltd., which is a Bermuda based subsidiary of global asset manager Apollo, has completed its first block reinsurance transaction in Japan, covering an in-force block of life insurance policies for FWD Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Japanese domiciled insurer FWD Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is part ... Read the full article
Mortality protection in life insurance crucial for global household resilience: Swiss Re Institute
23rd June 2023
Swiss Re Institute's recent Sigma Report highlights the crucial role of mortality protection, inherent to life insurance, in mitigating the growing vulnerability of households globally in the event of the primary breadwinner's premature demise. According to the report, the mortality protection gap, defined as the disparity between the necessary resources required ... Read the full article
Canada Life Reinsurance announces mortality transaction with Allianz Indonesia
14th December 2022
Canada Life Reinsurance, a provider of reinsurance solutions for life and health, has entered into a structured mortality transaction with Allianz Indonesia, expanding its footprint in Asia. Under the agreement, Canada Life Reinsurance will provide protection against adverse mortality experience on a portfolio of credit life business. According to Gareth Dobson, who ... Read the full article
L/A & health reinsurers remain well capitalised despite elevated mortality: AM Best
11th September 2022
According to AM Best, companies within the global life/annuity and health reinsurance segments are adopting different approaches as they react to elevated mortality trends; however, these reinsurers have remained well capitalized throughout the pandemic. The report suggests life and health reinsurers’ earnings in 2021 suffered from adverse mortality trends, though the ... Read the full article
Longitude Exchange unveils world’s first digital market for trading longevity risk
2nd March 2022
Longitude Exchange, a new Insurtech recently launched in Bermuda, has announced the impending release of its digital marketplace for trading longevity risk in index-based format, as the company looks to lower frictional costs and timelines. The new platform brings together hedgers and investors on a web-based ecosystem that's been built specifically ... Read the full article
RMS assists Willis Re, Securian on first indemnity-based mortality cat bond
23rd November 2020
Catastrophe risk modelling company RMS worked with Willis Re Securities and Securian Financial on the launch of La Vie Re Limited (Series 2020-1), a mortality catastrophe bond providing $100 million of reinsurance protection for Minnesota Life Insurance Company, a Securian Financial affiliate. The notes being issued by La Vie Re were ... Read the full article
APAC mortality protection gap forecast at $119tn by 2030: Swiss Re
11th August 2020
The aggregate mortality protection gap in Asia Pacific (APAC) is projected to reach $119 trillion by 2030, according to a new report by Swiss Re. The gap reached $83 trillion in 2019 and is expected to rise by an average of 4% each year over the next decade. Based on a survey ... Read the full article
RGA falls to $88mn Q1 loss, sees above-average mortality claim frequency
6th May 2020
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), a global provider of life reinsurance, has reported a net loss of $88 million for the first-quarter of 2020, driven primarily by movements in embedded derivatives as a result of COVID-19-induced financial market volatility and adverse impacts on credit spreads. A net loss of $88 million ... Read the full article
Latest mortality projections model to drive uptick in liabilities: Aon
16th March 2020
Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon expects to see a slight increase in liabilities from the use of the latest model from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) when compared with the 2018 version of the model. CMI_2019, the newly released March 2020 update of the CMI's projection model, incorporates deaths in the ... Read the full article
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