Athene Holding Ltd.

Athene Holding Ltd. is a financial services company specializing in retirement savings and insurance products. Operating through a network of subsidiaries, the company issues, reinsures, and acquires annuities and life insurance contracts for individual and institutional clients. Its product portfolio includes fixed indexed annuities, fixed rate annuities, registered index-linked annuities, variable annuities with income riders, and group annuities. The company also maintains a legacy business consisting of life insurance policies acquired through reinsurance transactions and closed blocks of business.

Beyond product issuance, Athene provides a suite of investment services encompassing direct investment management, asset allocation support, and merger and acquisition due diligence. It offers investment compliance, tax, legal, and risk management services to support client portfolios. The company issues funding agreements to institutional investors and structures transactions around acquired insurance and annuity blocks.

Athene distributes its products through multiple channels, including retail networks, flow reinsurance arrangements, institutional placements, and block reinsurance acquisitions. Incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, the company operates across the United States and internationally. Founded in 2008, Athene has built its business primarily through organic product issuance and acquisitions of existing insurance and annuity blocks from other carriers.