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Resilience in a time of crisis: how COVID-19 pandemic insights are supporting a vibrant longevity risk transfer market

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  • Kessler, Amy

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Pension risk transfer and longevity risk transfer are now growing secular trends. From North America to Europe, companies are de-risking pension plans in near-record volumes and have continued to boldly do so throughout the pandemic—at or near the most favorable pricing experienced in years. The arrival of funded reinsurance on both sides of the Atlantic is bringing reinsurer capital and private assets to support the steady growth in the pension risk transfer market. Additionally, we have observed that the enduring low-rate environment and quest for uncorrelated risk has the world's largest investors directing billions into life reinsurance sidecars. How have these markets thrived during the worst global outbreak in a century? Key research on the pandemic's impact on pensioner life expectancy allowed prices to be set and transactions to proceed through a time of significant uncertainty.

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  • Kessler, Amy, 2023. "Resilience in a time of crisis: how COVID-19 pandemic insights are supporting a vibrant longevity risk transfer market," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 89(3), pages 313-327, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:demeco:v:89:y:2023:i:3:p:313-327_2
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