Press Centre Hedge Funds Start To Play Longevity Swaps Derivatives Week August 2008 Hedge funds are starting to trade longevity swaps, which have so far been the domain of reinsurers, helping drive up flows in the business of picking life expectancy. read more... Credit Suisse signs longevity swap with Centurion Fund Managers Dow Jones Financial News July 2008 Credit Suisse has signed an innovative longevity swap deal with Centurion Fund Managers, in the latest signal that a flnancial market may be taking shape t hat will allow participants to trade, or bet, how long populations are going to live. read the full article... Centurion lists Argent Fund on Euro MTF exchange FT Adviser May 2008 Centurion Fund Managers last week listed its open-ended Argent Fund on Luxembourg’s Euro MTF exchange, to make it easier for European and UK investors to include it in their portfolio. Already as a result of the listing, James Hay has added the $84.6m fund (£43.5m) to its approved list of funds, Centurion said. read more... Argent Fund listed in Euro MTF Opalesque May 2008 Centurion Fund Managers’ Argent Fund listed today on the Euro MTF (Multi Lateral Trading Facility) in Luxembourg. Argent trades in life settlement funds and alternative investments, providing investors with the opportunity for capital growth with low volatility and flexible income options. The fund has four open classes, two of which focus on capital growth and two on income, achieving growth in the range of 5-7.5%. read more... Life Settlements offer profit opportunities for investors Dow Jones Financial News April 2008 If there is one thing that worries a pension trustee more than tumbling stock markets, it is longevity risk, or the chance his members will live longer than expected. Some banks have begun to offer derivatives that promise to swap away this risk, notably JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Although it is early days for such longevity hedging, investors may be able to benefit from rising life expectancy by investing in a form of asset that is linked to it -life settlements-, according to one academic. download full article... Centurion opens fund to investors FT Adviser September 2007 Centurion Fund Managers opened its fund to investors last week by listing one of its traded life policy funds (Life Settlement Strategy Fund) on the Channel Islands Stock exchange... read more... Trading in life policies is gaining ground in the race to ride out uncertainty FT Adviser June 2006 David Rawson Mackenzie, managing director of Centurion Fund Managers, describes how the traded life policies industry has grown in the last decade. He also states the advantages of investing in this asset class and provides investors with advice on what they should look at when selecting a traded life investment. read more... Centurion Fund Managers launches individual traded life policies for investment portfolios FT Adviser June 2006 Centurion Fund Managers has launched an alternative investment that is similar to a zero coupon bond but with a high potential yield, low volatility, low credit risk and no correlation to the stock market. The product also has a stop loss feature. read more... Centurion Fund Managers adds Capital Protected class to Defined Return Fund International Investment June 2006 CFM has launched a new Capital Protected Class. The product has been guaranteed to 100% on policies that have premiums of 6% of the sum assured, rising to 105% to lower premiums of 1%. Defined Return Fund has now two active classes: Growth Class Series 2 and Capital Protected Class. read more...