On June 26, 2025, Venerable Holdings, Inc. announced a transaction with Corebridge Financial, Inc. pursuant to which it will reinsure approximately $51 billion of variable annuity business from American General Life Insurance Company and The US Life Insurance Company in the City of New York. Additionally, Venerable will acquire Corebridge’ s investment…
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Venerable Holdings, Inc., the leader in providing innovative risk transfer solutions to variable annuity issuers, today announced a landmark transaction with Corebridge Financial, Inc. that will increase Venerable’ s total assets under risk management, on a pro forma basis as of March 31, 2025, by approximately 77% from $67 billion to $118 billion.
Corebridge Financial, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with CS Life Re, a subsidiary of Venerable Holdings, Inc. to reinsure all the variable annuities of its Individual Retirement business, with account value totaling $51 billion as of March 31, 2025. The transaction is valued at $2.8 billion, consisting of both ceding commission and…
The panel session is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 10:45am CDT. Kohlberg has been with AM Best since 2010, and as a team leader, maintains a diverse portfolio of life and annuity insurers located in the United States, Canada and Caribbean and regularly presents at the AM Best Review Preview conference as well as being involved in other AM Best industry…
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