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GLP-1 drugs could improve annual mortality levels by up to 0.5%

Munich Re study flags underwriting implications

RGA clears the air on vaping risks for life insurers

RGA highlights Equitable life book deal as strong earnings driver

In its 2025 financial results, the life reinsurer said it sees ongoing strength in Asia

Global Life Reinsurance: ready, set...and go

InsuranceERM's life reinsurance conference landed in London this week. People came to connect, cut deals, understand risk, probe regulators and find out what's next for this fast-growing sector. Sarfraz Thind reports

Opening the European life re pearl

Continental Europe is a pearl waiting to be claimed by life reinsurers. While deal volume remains slim, this is a market many feel is on the cusp of opening. By Sarfraz Thind

Monument Re transfers €1.4bn Greycastle portfolio to RGA

Capital will be redirected towards Monument Re's European life consolidation strategy

US PRT pause "a blip", Japan an exciting prospect for life reinsurance, says RGA

Life reinsurance competition not impacted by P&C involvement

Sidecar strategy expands in asset-intensive reinsurance, says AM Best

But the rating agency warns of potential counterparty concentration risk

Reinsurance solutions for IFRS 17: overcoming challenges in earnings emergence

Two years on from the introduction of the insurance contract accounting standard, the market is beginning to understand how reinsurance can be used to manage issues around volatility and emergence of profits, as Paul Sauvé explains

RGA eyes global growth of funded re

RGA has been one of the prime movers in reinsuring the UK's pension risk transfer insurers. Izzy Bickford, director, business development, talks to Sarfraz Thind about the funded reinsurance business and how she sees it developing