Athene, a retirement services company and subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, Inc., has announced that it will enter into a block reinsurance transaction with Japanese insurer Sony Life Insurance Co. Ltd.Under the agreement, Athene will reinsure an in-force block of U.S. dollar-denominated whole life insurance policies and will enter into an agreement with Swiss Re to retrocede all associated mortality risk.This is Athene’s second block reinsurance transaction and its eighth transaction with Japanese in ...