How Much Is Your Policy Worth?
How Much Is Your Policy Worth?

Depending on who's talking, seniors are getting mixed messages regarding life settlements and their value in the market.

What is Life Settlement?
What is Life Settlement?

A Life Settlement is the sale of an unwanted or unaffordable Life Insurance policy in exchange for a cash lump sum.

Client Benefits?
Client Benefits?

1.  Policy coverage is more than is needed  
2.  There are no more beneficiaries of the policy  
3.  Enjoy gifting money to your children today     
4.  Pay for long term medical care expenses

Life Settlements Report

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The latest news and analysis of the growing secondary market for life insurance settlements. Discover why this nascent market could be the best opportunity to come around in a decade to secure low-risk double-digit returns from an asset that is uncorrelated to real estate, commodities, bonds and stocks.
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Coventry Lays Off 12% of Staff, Restructures Capital Markets Team

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:46
Coventry laid off about 12% of its 300-employee workforce, most of them in its life settlement busin...
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KPMG Requesting Lifemark Be Moved into Judicial Liquidation

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:07
As bondholders prepare to vote on an orderly wind-down of Lifemark, the life settlement bond company...
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New Jersey Governor Picks Insurance Commissioner

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:29
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated Ken Kobylowski as the state's insurance and banking com...
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Nevada Federal Court Case Allows Insurers to Retain Premiums

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:29
A Nevada federal court case holding that insurers can retain premiums in a stranger-originated life ...
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Mulholland Liquidates His Consulting Firm in Bermuda

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:16
Jeff Mulholland, former chairman and chief executive of Insurance Capital Markets who joined Societe...
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Secondary Market Players See Improving Business Despite a Pummeling

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:12
Secondary market players who remain after the contraction that began more than three years ago are s...
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Neuman Takes Leave of Absence from Imperial Holdings

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 20:02
Jonathan Neuman, president and chief operating officer of Imperial Holdings, has taken a voluntary f...
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ARM Entertaining Other Offers Following Failed Insetco Deal

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 01:48
ARM Asset-Backed Securities has received other proposals for its $320 million life settlement portfo...
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Insetco's Offer to Buy ARM Collapses

Mon, 01/30/2012 - 18:35
A proposal for Insetco, a relatively new market player, to acquire the troubled ARM Asset-Backed Sec...
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Vespera Life Finds Funder to Buy Small-Face Policies

Thu, 01/26/2012 - 17:57
Vespera Life, which obtained a provider's license from Florida in February 2011, said it plans to bu...
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Pardo, Peden Win Re-Election to Life Partners Board

Thu, 01/26/2012 - 17:24
Brian Pardo, chief executive of beleaguered Life Partners Holdings, and Scott Peden, general counsel...
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FSA Shows No Bending to Industry Criticism

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 18:02
As the Financial Services Authority's formal public comment period on whether to ban life settlement...
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Monarch Alternative Capital Puts in Winning Bid for Part of Caldwell Portfolio

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 23:45
Monarch Alternative Capital, a New York-based buyer of distressed assets, has put in a winning bid f...
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New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Leaving Job, Paper Says

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 16:38
New Jersey's insurance and banking commissioner, Tom Considine, plans to give up his position in Feb...
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California Man Faces Foreclosure After Refinancing Home to Pay for $3M Policy

Mon, 01/23/2012 - 18:11
A California man who took out a line of credit to pay premiums on a $3 million policy that he could ...
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Imperial Obtains Funding for Structured Settlement Receivables

Fri, 01/20/2012 - 00:02
Imperial Holdings, the Boca Raton, Fla., specialty-finance firm being investigated by federal author...
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Welcome Funds Finds Buyer for Small-Face Term Conversion Policies

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 19:31
Welcome Funds, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based life settlement broker, has found an A-rated institutional b...
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AVS Underwriting Starts Giving Credits for Statin Use

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 18:44
AVS Underwriting recently began giving credits in its life expectancy estimates for people taking st...
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FINRA Says Brokers Charged Excessive Fees on Variables

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 18:39
Two brokers charged excessive fees ranging from 17% to 36% for five variable life settlement transac...
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Dematco Says It Placed $4M in Quantus Notes

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 00:49
Life settlement market players said they remain skeptical about Dematco, a U.S. company that claims ...
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