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The secondary market for life insurance continues to expand.

$1.6 billion in unclaimed assets – that’s the news out of Pennsylvania, where the State Treasury Department is in hot pursuit of people it owes money to.

Many agents have never spoken to a senior client about life settlements.  Why so little interest in this valuable financial planning tool?  For starters, not every agent is allowed to dis

Imagine a world where buyers are willing to purchase your car at substantially more than its trade-in value—and you get to

If you own a trust-owned life insurance policy, or TOLI, are your beneficiaries getting the full value possible from that policy? The difference between your TOLI and your traditional life insurance policy is this – someone, usually a professional management firm, is maintaining your policy and its valuation. 

 Term life insurance – that industry staple of the life insurance world, it provides policy holders with a decent death benefit and low premium rates.

The ghoul pool, betting on death, trolling for seniors.

It’s no wonder insurance companies and insurance associations are reluctant to support the emergence of the life settlements market.

 The Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) has sent a letter-to-the-editor of The New York Times in response to its September 5 story, "Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Lif