Life Settlement - Marketing News

Advanced Underwriting Solutions (AUS) announced today that it has been named the preferred vendor of life expectancy underwriting for Cambridge Guarantee Limited.

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DealFlow Media, publisher of The Life Settlements Report, will host The Life Settlements Conference, the largest independent event for providers, brokers and investors involved in the secondary life market. This event covers the latest political, regulatory and legal developments as well as new products, investment strategies, securitization, premium financing, and pricing structures. The Life Settlements Conference is a must-attend event for those eager to reap the benefits of the secondary life market.

Mergers and the battle to maintain market share will dominate the agendas of many life insurers over the next 12 to 18 months, according to analysts and company executives at a Standard & Poor’s insurance conference here last week.

As part of its efforts to support the premium finance industry through effective regulations, legislation, industry best practices and educational events, the Life Insurance Finance Association (LIFA) has announced an expansion to its membership.
Currently open to premium finance lenders and insurance producers, LIFA’s membership is now extended to any organization assisting in premium finance business, such as life expectancy underwriters, legal counsel and other professionals.

The newly designed Web site for Life Settlement Awareness Month, presented by Life Settlement Solutions, offers financial services and insurance industry professionals educational resources to better serve their clients.

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 first quarter of 2007. Peachtree Life Settlements has appointed Senior VP Sergio Salani as the head of these activities, and his efforts resulted in several block sales with European banks.

Advanced Life Settlements Management, B.V. (“Advanced LSM”),—specialists in the Netherlands focused on the US life settlement market announced today the successful closing of their first advisory trade on Life-Exchange.

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, the Association’s executive director, in announcing the Life Consumer Freedom Awards.

Life settlements continue to generate controversy, but continue to be popular, viable solutions for some of today’s consumers.

Legacy Benefits Corporation (New York), a recognized leader and innovator in the life settlements industry, announces a major new effort aimed at attracting a greater volume of policies from today’s growing number of sellers and at originating an ever-larger number of life settlement assets for its institutional clients. Supporting this effort is an ongoing expansion of professional staff, corporate offices and IT infrastructure.