Title: 14-67
An insurance company requested no-action relief from the Division, in order to allow the company to provide reinsurance of pension plans’ longevity risks through multi-step “Interposed Longevity Reinsurance Transactions,” without such reinsurance being considered as insurance or a guarantee of a swap. Based on the company’s specific fact pattern, the Division found that the use of derivatives in the Interposed Longevity Reinsurance Transaction serves merely as a conduit for longevity risk coverage and payments made pursuant to a bona fide reinsurance transaction. Therefore, the Division agreed not to recommend that the Commission take an enforcement action against the insurance company on the basis that, under this specific fact pattern, the reinsurance of longevity risk is or should be characterized as a swap, as insurance of a swap or a guarantee of a swap, or that the insurance company is a provider of, a party to, guarantor of, or insurer of, a swap.