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Blood host preferences and competitive inter-species dynamics within an African malaria vector species complex inferred from signs of animal activity around aquatic larval habitats. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Walsh KA   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Life Settlements

The Journal of Structured Finance, 2008
Acquirers of life settlements or investments linked to them rely on medical underwriters to help assess the mortality risk for each underwritten life. However, for the non-actuary investor, evaluating potential deviations in actual experience from the underwriters9 assessment relative to the investors9 risk tolerance is a critical challenge.
Jesse M. Schwartz, Timothy O. Wood
exaly   +3 more sources

Life Settlements

open access: yesThe Journal of Structured Finance, 2005
Over the past two years, the secondary market for life insurance policies, known as life settlements, has grown in the United States to a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Life settlement transactions have increased in volume and are likely to remain attractive due to the yields, the uncorrelated nature of the asset, and the flexibility available ...
Leduc, Janet L. Kaminski.
openaire   +2 more sources

Life settlements

open access: yes, 2011
Die vorliegende Magisterarbeit behandelt das Thema „Life Settlements“, wobei es sich hierbei um den Sekundärmarkt für Lebensversicherungen handelt. Es wird – soweit nicht explizit anderweitiges erwähnt wurde – lediglich auf den U.S.-amerikanischen Markt und dessen Gegebenheiten eingegangen.
Becker, Alexander
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Tracing Community Life across Virtual Settlements

open access: yesInternational Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2010
Recent scholarship has demonstrated that virtual communities can be traced in the online ‘tells’ retained by popular virtual settlements like Facebook and Twitter. In this article, the authors push this line of research toward an analysis of pre-requisites and constrains of virtual settlements that determine the understanding of community life across ...
Demosthenes Akoumianakis
openaire   +2 more sources

Explaining the risk premiums of life settlements

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2021
Abstract Life settlements may facilitate a more efficient insurance market, generate diversification benefits to investors, and even provide hedging benefits to Asia life insurers. The literature does not investigate what determines the risk premiums of life settlements, and we intend to fill this gap.
Ko-Lun Kung   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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