Aetna Announces Transaction with Vitality Re III
January 26 2012 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Aetna (NYSE: AET) today announced that it has entered into
a three-year reinsurance arrangement with Vitality Re III Limited
as part of its long-term capital management strategy. The
arrangement allows Aetna to reduce its required capital and
provides $150 million of collateralized excess of loss reinsurance
coverage on a portion of Aetna’s group commercial health insurance
business.1 Vitality Re III is a newly formed insurance company
which issued health insurance-linked notes in a private offering in
connection with this transaction.
“We have successfully completed our third reinsurance
transaction that provides catastrophic risk protection, improves
our capital efficiency and reduces our weighted average cost of
capital,” said Joseph M. Zubretsky, senior executive vice president
and CFO. “This transaction allows Aetna to free up additional
capital held for the covered commercial health insurance business,
and deploy it in an accretive manner.”
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care
benefits companies, serving approximately 36.3 million people with
information and resources to help them make better informed
decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of
traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance
products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental,
behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical
management capabilities and health care management services for
Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals,
college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans,
governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and
expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com.
1 Amounts payable under the reinsurance arrangement are based on
the annual medical benefit ratio (“MBR”) of a portion of Aetna Life
Insurance Company’s group commercial PPO, POS and indemnity
business compared to a threshold attachment point specified in the
reinsurance arrangement. The principal amount of the Vitality Re
III notes, which are non-recourse to Aetna, and the coverage
available under the reinsurance arrangement will be reduced by any
payments to Aetna under the reinsurance arrangement. Aetna will be
entitled to begin to receive payments from Vitality Re III under
the reinsurance arrangement if the MBR of the covered business for
calendar year 2012 reaches an initial attachment point of 97%. The
full $150 million of coverage would be paid to Aetna if the MBR of
the covered business reaches an initial exhaustion point of 117%
for calendar year 2012. The attachment and exhaustion points will
be reset annually for 2013 and 2014 to maintain modeled
probabilities of attachment and expected loss on the Vitality Re
III notes equal to the initial modeled probabilities of attachment
and expected loss.
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