Longevity management

We help insurers and reinsurers to adapt and grow their longevity business. Our confident, comprehensive understanding of longevity supports profitable product pricing, accurate reserving and efficient reinsurance.

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Why Hymans?

Our award-winning team of longevity specialists help insurers and reinsurers adapt and grow in an ever-changing environment. We can help you understand, model and hedge longevity risk to meet regulatory expectations and support market entry. We can also support clients with portfolios outside the UK.

We’re happy to explore different ways of working, including one-off consulting projects, interactive team workshops or seconded in-house support, and we love to share our market-leading research and insight.

Our services include:

advising on assumptions for longevity trends, including post-pandemic effects
analysing pension scheme and annuity book transactions, including pre-retirement options such as early retirement and transfers out
setting marital assumptions for policies with joint life benefits
developing, refining and independently validating your longevity capital model
benchmarking your assumptions across industry
assessing capital market solutions for longevity risk
analysing the impact of climate scenarios on longevity risk

The report has been a helpful tool in condensing a broad range of research into quantifiable scenarios which is challenging given the level of inherent uncertainty. The fact that projections made in the prior year have been re-assessed in light of emerging information has helped improve the robustness of the projected scenarios

Head of Longevity, large bulk annuity provider on Hymans Longevity Team

Global reinsurer case study

A global reinsurer wanted to enter the longevity-swap market and needed an independent view on baseline longevity assumptions for target portfolios.

We used our experience of analysing 200+ pension schemes to highlight unusual issues and features of the target portfolio and its longevity experience. That helped our client successfully enter the market with confidence in new business pricing and capital allocation.

Recent highlights

Supporting insurers and reinsurers

We support eight out of nine direct insurance writers and ten out of twelve established reinsurance participants, as well as recent and prospective entrants.