Life Settlement News

Examination Management Services, Inc. (EMSI), a life settlement service provider, has been asked by two leading organizations in the life insurance industry to provide presentations on life settlement issues.

Life Policy Dynamics, LLC, (“LPD”) an outsource servicing solution for the secondary life insurance market, announces the completion of its third quarterly market analysis of the life settlement industry. The LPD market analysis provides life settlement funders and premium finance lenders an independent summary of economic values for life policies recently traded in the secondary market. The analysis is based upon a sample of actual transactions completed during the third quarter of 2006. Valerie Coffey, Director of Operations, presented this market analysis on October 26th at the annual BVZL Conference in Dortmund Germany. She will also be presenting it at the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) conference in New York on Wednesday, November 29th at 1:30 PM.

Jim Terlizzi, CEO of Peachtree Life Settlements, called on the life settlement industry to be more proactive in putting forth a regulatory agenda addressing broker fee disclosure, insurable interest abuses and other issues affecting the life settlement market. He urged the more than 275 industry participants attending
Fasano Associates’ Third Annual Life Settlement Conference to become more politically active.

The Life Settlement Institute (LSI), the leading organization representing secondary market providers for life insurance, reaffirmed today its pro-consumer and pro-competition efforts to regulate life settlements.

Fasano Associates announced today that it will host its Third Annual Life Settlement Conference on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at its headquarters in Washington, DC. The conference will address regulatory, investment and other issues affecting the life settlement market with presentations by Lehman Brothers, Baker & McKenzie and Fasano Associates.

One group of advisers last month opened up its own specialty broker-dealer specifically to make sure trades of life settlements are handled properly.
With NASD last month issuing a notice to members reminding.

The life settlement industry is poised for another major growth spurt in the latter half of 2006 as many non-recourse premium financing contracts enter the secondary market, according to life settlement broker John Welcom of Welcome Funds. Life settlements enable seniors to sell existing life insurance policies for sums that exceed their cash surrender values.

Maple Life Financial recently participated in an industry discussion on World Business Review, a popular newsmagazine television show respected for its broadcasts of factual information about the latest topics, trends, and solutions to industry problems.

Life Settlement Solutions, Inc. Continues to Host Webinars During Life Settlement Awareness Month; Sessions Will Educate Agents on Using Life Settlements as a Financial-Planning Tool

Life Settlement Solutions, Inc. Declares June Life Settlement Awareness Month; Educational Opportunities Will Highlight First-Ever Event
Life insurance agents and brokers looking to side-step the usual summer sales blues may have heard of life settlements, but may not have sufficient knowledge to offer them to clients.