RGA’s asset intensive insight

RGA remains one of the few reinsurers to have transacted an asset intensive reinsurance deal in Europe. As Executive Vice Presidents Cormac Galvin, Head of EMEA, and Jonathan Porter, Global Chief Risk Officer, discuss, shifting life markets mean this is a long-term growth business.

The IAIS Re-enforcing Re-insurance

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) is the international standard-setting body for insurance markets. In this interview, Dieter Hendrickx, chair of the IAIS Monitoring and Risk Assessment Committee, talks about the international context for Europe’s life reinsurance business.

Longevity risk in Europe
Longevity reinsurance is booming in the Netherlands. What are the drivers and will the rest of Europe follow suit? What occupation should you pursue if you want to live longest? According to the panel on longevity at Life-Re Europe, librarian might be a good bet. That was the occupation of Prudential Financial’s oldest living pension risk transfer (PRT) annuitant, who started receiving payments from the insurer way back in 1929, when the insurer transacted what it calls the first pension buy-out contract of its kind – and the start of its PRT business – with the Cleveland public library. The librarian in question has no doubt retired now, however longevity continues to occupy the minds of insurers and pension plans around the world. At Life-Re Europe, a longevity panel debated the recent boom...
The European consolidation wave
It has been long talked about but consolidation could be coming to Europe in a big way as participants from Viridium and Frankfurter Leben discussed at Life-Re Europe.
The PRA’s funded re clampdown
Has the PRA crashed the funded re market? That is the question many are asking following its recent proposal to hit the UK’s funded re business with a 10% capital charge.
Europe’s need for AIR
Asset intensive reinsurance (AIR) has taken hold in life markets around the world. Europe, though, is a different story. But does Europe really need AIR?
Life-Re Europe 2026 round-up
Life-Re Europe held its first event in April. From longevity to reinsurance, assets to regulations, the forum covered a manifold range of key topics for the European life insurance market.

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Longevity risk in Europe

Longevity reinsurance is booming in the Netherlands. What are the drivers and will the rest of Europe follow suit? What occupation should you pursue if you want to live longest? According to the panel on longevity at Life-Re Europe, librarian

The European consolidation wave

It has been long talked about but consolidation could be coming to Europe in a big way as participants from Viridium and Frankfurter Leben discussed at Life-Re Europe.

The PRA’s funded re clampdown

Has the PRA crashed the funded re market? That is the question many are asking following its recent proposal to hit the UK’s funded re business with a 10% capital charge.

Europe’s need for AIR

Asset intensive reinsurance (AIR) has taken hold in life markets around the world. Europe, though, is a different story. But does Europe really need AIR?

Life-Re Europe 2026 round-up

Life-Re Europe held its first event in April. From longevity to reinsurance, assets to regulations, the forum covered a manifold range of key topics for the European life insurance market.

The Regulators Angle

Regulatory certainty is key to a flourishing life reinsurance market. At Life-Re Europe, regulators showed receptivity to this newly emerging market development.

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