TY - JOUR T1 - Introducing Alternative Capital to Longevity<br/>Risk Transfer JF - The Journal of Alternative Investments SP - 28 LP - 34 DO - 10.3905/jai.2014.17.1.028 VL - 17 IS - 1 AU - Neil Cunha-Gomes Y1 - 2014/06/30 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/17/1/28.abstract N2 - 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.TOPICS: Fixed income and structured finance, foundations &amp; endowments, risk management ER -