Life Settlement News

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.

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.

Recent share market volatility caused by the fall in the Chinese equity market has illustrated the value of including non-market correlated assets in an investment portfolio, according to an industry fund manager. An example of an asset displaying these characteristics is the Life Settlements Wholesale Fund, which has experienced significant growth since its launch in July of last year.

Large Dutch pension plans are turning to securitized life insurance policies, or life settlements, as a new source of uncorrelated returns.

Peachtree Life Settlements was recently appointed as an approved originator and servicer for a large German life settlement fund. This fund is the most recent in a series of funds marketed and managed in Germany by the fund initiator which is part of a multi-national European banking giant.

The Lifetrade Fund B.V., has received a Standard & Poor’s Credit Quality rating as a life settlement investment fund. Lifetrade is the first open-ended fund to receive such a rating from Standard & Poor’s in the secondary life insurance market.