Life Settlements and Longevity Structures Pricing and Risk Management

by Chaplin, Geoff; Aspinwall, Jim; Venn, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780470741948
• ISBN10: 0470741945
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The first guide to investing in and structuring life settlement policiesThis is the first book to cover life insurance products for the investment management industry. It provides in-depth coverage of the way the life insurance industry works, calculations of survival probabilities, and how to structure life settlement policies as standalone investments or as part of a structured portfolio. This is a growing industry due to the rising cost of living and increased healthcare costs.Geoff Chaplin (Tokyo, Japan) is Partner at Reoch Credit Partners, an ABS, life contingency, and credit consultancy. Jim Aspinwall (Residence, FL) is Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Florida Southern University. He has formerly worked in investment banking and in risk management.

Author Biography

GEOFF CHAPLIN studied mathematics at Cambridge (MA 1972) and Oxford (MSc 1973, DPhil 1975) and trained as an actuary (FFA 1978) while working in a life insurance company. He moved to the City in 1980 and has worked for major banks (including HSBC, Nomura International, and ABN AMRO). As a partner in Reoch Credit he has consulted to law firms, hedge funds, corporate treasurers, institutional investment funds and risk control departments of major banks in the areas of credit and mortality risk. He has been involved in the credit derivatives market since 1996 and life settlements structures since 2003. Geoff has also maintained strong academic interests – he was a visiting (emeritus) professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, from 1987 until 1999. He has also published many articles in Risk, the Journal of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and others, speaks regularly at conferences and is the author of “Credit Derivatives: Risk management, Trading and Investing” published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2005.

JIM ASPINWALL is Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Florida Southern University, and on the board of a private equity firm, an investment bank and managing member of a hedge fund. With over 30 years in the business, Jim has a wide range of experience. At Chase Manhattan Bank he was the prime developer of Chase’s REALM system, a risk management and derivatives pricing system, which was used, by Chase Manhattan Bank and over 200 clients around the world. While at Chase Jim was involved in Project Cloud, which was a state of the art Artificial Intelligence system that could forecast changes in credit rating 2 years out with a 95% accuracy rate. He has also has experience at other major Investment Banks, including Banc One and Nomura, Japan’s largest Brokerage house, where he was involved in credit arbitrage trading and the creation of large credit structures. While head of quantitative research and development at Abbey National Jim over saw the development, pricing and risk management of multiple structured products such as trigger swaps and power reverse dual currency bonds.

MARK VENN (London, United Kingdom) is CEO and Managing Director of Clearlife Limited, and President of ClearLife’s US affiliate, ClearLife Inc. ClearLife was founded by Mark in November 2007. It supplies trade processing, evaluation and risk analysis services to participants in the life settlements and premium finance markets. These services are provided through ClearLife’s data management network, ClariNet™, which allows investors in life settlements and synthetic longevity risk to interact in a secure manner with external service providers and other market participants. Prior to founding ClearLife, Mark established Mizuho International plc's Asset Finance Group in 2005 – a principal investment team formed to focus on the life settlements market. Mark recruited and managed a team of six front office professionals and worked with Mizuho’s support teams to build a dedicated legal, information technology and operations infrastructure for life settlements. Through this process, Mark gained invaluable experience in designing and developing business procedures, information technology and risk management systems, tailored to the specific requirements of longevity and mortality risk. He also initiated and maintained relationships with key service providers and counterparties in the life settlements market. Over two years, Mark grew Mizuho’s life settlements portfolio to over US$1.2 billion in face amount. While at Mizuho, Mark also founded the Institutional Life Markets Association (ILMA), which has become the leading trade association for institutional participants in the life settlements and premium finance markets. Mark joined Mizuho in 2000 with two colleagues to co-found Mizuho’s Structured Credit Products Group, which completed US$3 billion in synthetic US high yield CDOs. From 1993, Mark worked for Credit Suisse First Boston and Credit Suisse Financial Products and was based in Hong Kong, London, New York and Tokyo over this period, specialising latterly in credit derivatives and synthetic CDOs. Mark holds a master's degree in law from Cambridge University and qualified as a barrister in 1990.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Life Insurance: Primary and Secondary Markets

Mortality and Credit Structures, Valuation and Risk

Structured Products and Securitization

Examples of LSP Securitization: A Principle Protected Fund

Capital Markets Products: Principal Protection

Structured Financing: Guaranteed Loan Repayment

Life Settlement Derivatives

Hedging

Appendix 1

Bibliography

Index

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