'THE' CONFERENCE FOR THE
LIFE (RE) INSURANCE INDUSTRY
LIFE (RE) INSURANCE INDUSTRY
- 8:30 – 20:00
- Tuesday, 30th September 2025
- The Bloomsbury Hotel, London
ReDirect 2025 is a not-for-profit conference that aims to bring together the thought leaders, market participants and industry influencers in the European Life insurance and reinsurance market.
In our second year, we have another fantastic line up of topics, delivered by people at the frontline of European Insurance and Global Reinsurance.
Please see the full agenda below.
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Event Agenda
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | Registration Open & Welcome Coffee |
| 09:15 | Welcome Pretty Sagoo - Just Group Plc |
| 09:25 | A Regulatory View on Reinsurance's Role in Fostering a Resilient, Innovative, and Globally Interconnected Insurance Market in a Period of Rapid and Significant Demographic and Market Shifts Gerald Gakundi - Head of Insurance Supervision, BMA |
| 09:50 | View from the Executive Suite Panel moderated by Marc Beckers Jonathan Moss - Former CEO Resolution Re, CFO Resolution Life Amy Kessler - Former CEO, Prismic Philipp Rüede - CEO, SCOR L&H |
| 10:15 | Breaking Down the Insurance Black Box Gordon Aitken - Aitken Advisory Limited |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 | A Whistlestop Tour of European Insurance M&A Brian Ring, Colin Forrest & Prakhar Goel - Oliver Wyman |
| 11:30 | The Opportunity Horizon: Why Europe’s Life Reinsurance Market Matters Now Theo Lutgendorff - Howden Re Bryce Shepherd - RGA |
| 11:55 | The Regulatory Conundrum (Divergence and convergence between international regulatory regimes and how these may drive reinsurance flows) Cyrille Strugarek & Adam Bailey - Morgan Stanley |
| 12:25 | Networking Lunch |
| 13:55 | Big in Japan, Big Everywhere Else: Japan’s global role in life insurance M&A and funded reinsurance Jamie Logie - Resolution Life |
| 14:25 | Navigating Structural Shifts: Insurer and Reinsurer Perspectives on the IAIS Issues Paper. Dialogue on the implications of alternative assets and funded reinsurance on risk, regulation, and resilience Stephan Erasmus - L&G Vanessa Ho Von - Pac Life Re |
| 14:55 | Onshore Sidecars - All Flavours of Ice Cream? Robert Chaplin - Skadden Caroline Jaffer - Skadden |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 | Opportunities Where There is Complexity - UK Funded Reinsurance: Regulation, Assets & Execution in Focus
A zoom in on the UK PRT space with this deep-dive into SS5/24, MA strategies, and the evolution of funded re solutions. Aleem Qureshi from BMO showing us how to make it work Nick Ford & Marc Storan - Hymans Robertson Aleem Qureshi - BMO |
| 16:20 | Life after PRT - The Next Generation of Longevity Cover Matt Collins - SCOR |
| 16:45 | Closing Comments from the Organising Committee Robert Chaplin - Skadden Marc Beckers Pretty Sagoo - Just Group Plc |
| 17:00 | Networking Drinks & Canapés in Coral Room |
2025 Event Partners
Organising comittee
Robert ChaplinPartner, Skaddan
Rob focuses on the insurance and asset management sectors, advising on international and domestic reinsurances, mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. He has extensive experience in transactions involving financial sponsors and their in-house (re)insurers, asset managers, portfolio companies and other private capital-owned vehicles. His clients include U.K.-, Europe-, U.S.- and Bermuda- based insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries, and asset managers. Rob counsels on regulatory issues (with a particular emphasis on prudential matters, including Solvency II and Solvency UK), schemes, restructurings and reorganizations, capital raisings, life and non-life portfolio transfers, longevity transactions, and distribution and other material commercial agreements.
Marc BeckersGeneral Manager, MBeckers
Since December 2021, Marc is self-employed and focuses on advising insurers on solving complex insurance-related projects, in particular derisking insurance balance sheets through legacy transactions or retrocession of longevity risk. In addition, Marc is working with the ClaimsCarbon team on quantifying CO2 emissions of claims handling. Previously Marc was a partner at TigerRisk Partners where he ran the EMEA region and the Global Life practice. Prior to that, Marc led Aon’s analytics team and structured solutions team for EMEA. He led several unique M&A transactions and complex life reinsurance solutions. Before that, Marc was M&A banker at Salomon Brothers focusing on insurance M&A across Europe. Marc is a life actuary by training with 34 years of experience.
Pretty SagooManaging Director, Just Group
Pretty leads the Defined Benefit Solutions team and is a member of the Group Executive Committee at the Just Group Plc. A subject-matter expert in bulk annuities she has significant practical experience in driving change, innovation and creating sustainable growth. Pretty joined Just from Athora in 2022, the specialist insurance and reinsurance consolidator, where she was head of new business and pensions. Previously head of pricing and execution for Pension Risk Transfer at L&G and head of insurance and pensions solutions at Deutsche Bank. She has a PhD in Physics from Imperial College