Life Settlement and Viatical Settlement News

North Dakota blazes a regulatory trail
NEW YORK — North Dakota last week became the first state to adopt a more stringent statute regulating life settlements, with special emphasis on stranger-originated life insurance.
Other states may follow, making life settlements a less attractive option for adviser clients who want to sell or invest in life insurance policies, […]

Peachtree Life Settlements Launches Life Settlement Trading Operations
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Peachtree Life Settlements is pleased to announce the launch of Life Settlement Trading operations which it commenced in the
first quarter of 2007. This new endeavor has made a strong start with policies
representing over $200 million in net death benefit sold to institutional counter-parties in the […]

Settlement Association: Awards Will Recognize Leaders in Struggle for Consumer
Financial Freedom
ORLANDO, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — April 19, 2007 — At its 13th Annual Spring Conference May 16-18 in New York City, the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) will honor legislators and regulators, “who are strong proponents of a pro-consumer, free-market approach,” says Doug Head, […]

Stable returns draw pension funds to growing market
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Large Dutch pension plans are turning to securitized life
insurance policies, or life settlements, as a new source of uncorrelated returns.
Life settlements comprise a relatively new asset class for pension plans in both Europe and the U.S., and issuance of these bondlike investments has grown rapidly […]

Troy, New York, March 30, 2007 — Representative Michael Ripley (IN), Chair of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Life Insurance & Financial Planning Committee, has scheduled an interim meeting of an NCOIL Subcommittee on Life Settlements on Saturday, April 21, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.
During […]