Introducing Alternative Capital to Longevity
Risk Transfer

Abstract

For years, the catastrophe bond market has garnered considerable interest from a variety of capital market investors, such as endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. Although investment in these catastrophe-linked securities has increased significantly over the last two decades, to date, capital market investors have participated in only a handful of longevity transactions. By drawing on lessons from the development of catastrophe bond market and from the few successful longevity transactions with capital market investors, this article considers a format in which longevity risk may be sustainably transferred into the capital markets in the future.