Avery T. Michaelson

Avery T. Michaelson has extensive experience across the life settlements, longevity risk, and insurance-linked securities markets. A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude, he has spent his career at the intersection of quantitative analysis and the practical work of originating, pricing, and managing longevity-linked assets.

As Partner and Portfolio Manager at Sea Point Capital, Avery leads portfolio management, asset origination and pricing, and longevity risk management, and oversees the fund operations specific to life insurance assets.

At Deutsche Bank, working on the same team as Michael Crane, Avery oversaw much of the policy origination and pricing process, coordinating with policy providers, medical underwriters, and servicers. He held earlier positions at Peachtree and Coventry, and went on to serve as Head of Longevity at Société Générale, where he co-authored influential research on building global capacity for longevity risk transfer.

He later founded Longitude Solutions, an advisory providing transaction services to the longevity risk market, and led the landmark 2017 index-based longevity hedging transaction between NN Life and Hannover Re. As co-founder and CEO of Longitude Exchange, he built a technology-enabled marketplace designed to turn longevity risk into a tradable asset class — work that reflects his focus on designing the models, pricing frameworks, and operational systems that make these assets investable.

Avery helped launch the Index Longevity Market Action Committee (ILMAC), alongside longevity experts Prof. Andrew Cairns and Prof. David Blake, and is a frequent speaker at financial and longevity conferences.