{"id":4421,"date":"2026-05-01T21:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/the-practice-manual-podcast-life-reinsurance-sidecars-skadden-arps-slate-meagher-flom-llp\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:32:03","slug":"the-practice-manual-podcast-life-reinsurance-sidecars-skadden-arps-slate-meagher-flom-llp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/the-practice-manual-podcast-life-reinsurance-sidecars-skadden-arps-slate-meagher-flom-llp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Practice Manual Podcast | Life (Re)insurance Sidecars | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &#038; Flom LLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On the first episode of \u201cThe Practice Manual,\u201d host Robert Chaplin is joined by colleagues Feargal Ryan, Caroline Jaffer and Theo Charalambous to examine life (re)insurance sidecars, including what they are, how they work and why they matter. The team analyzes the U.K.\u2019s booming pension risk transfer market and the key parties involved \u2014 sponsors, investors and regulators \u2014 and assesses how sidecar vehicles may be structured. They also explore the central role of asset management in the sidecar space, with a particular focus on<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumShowLink()\">  See\u00a0more\u00a0+<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the first episode of \u201cThe Practice Manual,\u201d host Robert Chaplin is joined by colleagues Feargal Ryan, Caroline Jaffer and Theo Charalambous to examine life (re)insurance sidecars, including what they are, how they work and why they matter. The team analyzes the U.K.\u2019s booming pension risk transfer market and the key parties involved \u2014 sponsors, investors and regulators \u2014 and assesses how sidecar vehicles may be structured. They also explore the central role of asset management in the sidecar space, with a particular focus on illiquid asset classes such as private credit and infrastructure loans, and the evolving dynamic between insurers and external asset managers.<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumHideLink()\">  See\u00a0less\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first episode of \u201cThe Practice Manual,\u201d host Robert Chaplin is joined by colleagues Feargal Ryan, Caroline Jaffer and Theo Charalambous to examine life (re)insurance sidecars, including what they are, how they work and why they matter. The team analyzes the U.K.\u2019s booming pension risk transfer market and the key parties involved \u2014 sponsors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2156,2159,2248,2132,3223,2158,168,2409,611,2362,2155,2157],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-arps","tag-flom","tag-life","tag-llp","tag-manual","tag-meagher","tag-podcast","tag-practice","tag-reinsurance","tag-sidecars","tag-skadden","tag-slate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}