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• Impacts of DSCR: Strain, Pain, When to Retain

  By Ben Johnson| Commercial Property Executive Verified By Ben Johnson March 5, 2025 ViewpointFinance With rates staying high, many borrowers are at a crossroads, writes Gantry's Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson The greatest challenge to securing financing in the current cycle is without a doubt meeting the necessary debt service coverage ratio in the current rate climate. Debt liquidity remains abundant, ready and accessible from a broad range of sources. However, while most lenders have not changed their DSCR requirements, rates have gone up...

  By Ben Johnson · Commercial Property Executive

  Mar. 05, 2025

• Understanding Longevity - Assumptions for insurance companies and pension schemes

  By Ben Johnson, Mark Sharkey, Helen Wells, Mark Cooper| hymans.co.uk@ OverviewIn this episode of Hymans Robertson on... Understanding Longevity, Ben Johnson is joined by Helen Wells, Mark Cooper from Rothesay and Mark Sharkey from Club Vita to discuss how pension schemes and insurers may have different approaches to longevity. We discuss how insurers and pension schemes go about setting baseline mortality rates and allowances for future improvements, and our guests talk about the challenges and opportunities of longevity work in 2023.

  By Ben Johnson, Mark Sharkey, Helen Wells, Mark Cooper · hymans.co.uk

  Jul. 18, 2023

• Impacts of DSCR: Strain, Pain, When to Retain

  By Ben Johnson| Commercial Property Executive Verified By Ben Johnson March 5, 2025 ViewpointFinance With rates staying high, many borrowers are at a crossroads, writes Gantry's Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson The greatest challenge to securing financing in the current cycle is without a doubt meeting the necessary debt service coverage ratio in the current rate climate. Debt liquidity remains abundant, ready and accessible from a broad range of sources. However, while most lenders have not changed their DSCR requirements, rates have gone up...

  By Ben Johnson · Commercial Property Executive

  Mar. 05, 2025

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