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Risk Mitigation for Life Settlements
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2006Investors seeking new structures for acquiring policies in the life settlement market encounter several underlying risks unique to the asset class. Those risks, described in this article, include contestability risk, missing body risk, insurable interest risk, incorrect-purchase-price risk, life insurance company credit risk, cost-of-insurance risk ...
Nemo Perera, Brian Reeves
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Inside the Life Settlement Industry
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2006The life settlement industry offers a combination of challenges and opportunities for domestic and international investors in an uncorrelated asset class with promising returns. Although the life settlement supply chain is characterized by a variety of interdependent players including, financial planners, life settlement brokers, actuarial experts ...
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Evolution of the Life Settlement Industry
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2008New and evolving challenges confront all participants in the life settlement industry as this marketplace continues to experience explosive growth. As in any emerging industry, along with growth comes regulation, conforming business practices, and an evolution of the product itself. The life settlement industry is no exception.
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The efficiency effects of life settlement on the life insurance market
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2019Abstract We investigate the effects of life settlement, the securitization of life insurance contracts, on the primary insurance market. We analyze an economic model in which policyholders have different liquidity risks in an overlapping generation setting, and both policyholders and the monopolistic insurer incur liquidity costs. We find that, under
S. Hun Seog, Jimin Hong
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Recent developments in the life settlement industry
Journal of Investment Compliance, 2012PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain the meaning and legal impact of two September 2011 Supreme Court of Delaware decisions regarding challenges to the validity of life insurance policies sold to investors as life settlements on the basis of a lack of an insurable interest after the expiration of the two‐year contestability period.Design ...
Patrick Dolan, Robert F. Alleman
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Inside the Life Settlement Industry
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2007As a portal to institutional investors and a gateway to settlement brokers, the provider plays a pivotal role in the secondary market supply chain. This article discusses key issues and challenges faced by providers in the current life settlements market.
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Life in the Kongsi Settlements of KL and Penang
2021In the first substantive chapter, the reader is introduced to the world of the kongsi—makeshift, improvised, spaces of habitation which migrants who are involved in hyper-construction work often find themselves in. In 2016, a special report by a local Malaysian newspaper, The Star, highlighted the presence and prevalence of a new type of informal ...
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The Life Settlement Industry Today
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2011Having survived the credit crisis, extensive regulatory changes, and the negative press, the life settlement industry is still standing. With investors having found a new appreciation for uncorrelated investments, life settlements are emerging as a sensible part of an institutional investor’s portfolio.
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The Case for Sunshine in the Life Settlement Industry
The Journal of Structured Finance, 2006The secondary market for life insurance policies continues to grow as a result of the positive value created through improved liquidity for an otherwise illiquid asset. While there are critics of the life settlement industry, market forces and property rights ensure that the phenomenon of individuals reselling their life insurance policies will persist.
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