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$50mn longevity bond in first bid for grey dollar

9 December 2010

Swiss Re may be seeking just $50mn for its new Kortis longevity bond, but the significance of this milestone carries much more weight than the modest sum suggests.

It is the first bond to test the ILS market for what could be a bigger source of business than catastrophe risk - namely the trillion dollar wallets of pension funds and (re)insurers exposed to the burden of a greying population.

Reinsurance capacity for this risk is limited making it, in theory,...

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