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Life insurance rates have gone down since COVID

Good news!

People are living longer since COVID-19.

The source is Rebecca Barwick.

https://www.swissre.com/profile/Rebecca_Barwick/ip_c598e1

She heads Global Underwriting Research & Development for Swiss Re.

https://www.swissre.com/institute/partnerships.html

It is the biggest reinsurance company in the world for any risk.

Including life insurance.

https://www.swissre.com/about-us/facts-and-figures.html

Swiss Re specializes in covering individual life insurance policies in amounts exceeding $25 million.

Anywhere in the world.

Insurance companies are in business to make, rather than lose, money.

https://www.swissre.com/reinsurance/life-and-health/solutions/life-guide/swiss-re-opens-access-to-life-guide-underwriting-manual.html

This is where some of their data come from:

  • Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston

  • London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston

  • Oasis Loss Modeling Network, London

https://sc5.easme-web.eu/?p=730381

  • Peking University, China

  • University of St. Galen: Institute of Insurance Economics, Switzerland

  • University of Zurich, Switzerland

https://www.swissre.com/institute/partnerships.html

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Other sources

No evidence that life insurance rates have been increasing.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/has-covid-19-made-life-insurance-more-expensive-these-researchers-say-they-have-the-answer-2020-12-07

Life insurance rates will go down if one has never had diabetes or heart (cardiopulmonary) disease.

https://www.investopedia.com/what-to-expect-from-life-insurance-in-2021-5095785

Life insurance rates have decreased in Russia since COVID-19.

https://www.acra-ratings.com/research/2113