PIC reinsurers £2bn of longevity risk

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Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has reinsured the longevity risk relating to £2bn of liabilities with Hannover Re and Reinsurance Group of America this year.

Most of the risk was passed on to the reinsurance market as part of a ‘back-to-back' deal in which the insurer wrote a £1.6bn buy-in with oil firm Total and immediately transferred the longevity ri...

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