PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Neil Cunha-Gomes TI - Introducing Alternative Capital to Longevity<br/>Risk Transfer AID - 10.3905/jai.2014.17.1.028 DP - 2014 Jun 30 TA - The Journal of Alternative Investments PG - 28--34 VI - 17 IP - 1 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/1/28.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/1/28.full AB - For years, the catastrophe bond market has garnered considerable interest from a variety of capital market investors, such as endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. Although investment in these catastrophe-linked securities has increased significantly over the last two decades, to date, capital market investors have participated in only a handful of longevity transactions. By drawing on lessons from the development of catastrophe bond market and from the few successful longevity transactions with capital market investors, this article considers a format in which longevity risk may be sustainably transferred into the capital markets in the future.TOPICS: Fixed income and structured finance, foundations &amp; endowments, risk management