Life Settlement News

On April 16th, the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) will continue its pioneering series of Producer Seminars on life settlements in Philadelphia, PA. The 2008 LISA Producer Seminar is a highly anticipated event which brings together Producers to learn how life settlements can benefit their clients and increase their profits.

The Kentucky House of Representatives has taken an important
step to protect life insurance consumers with a ban on stranger originated life insurance (STOLI) schemes,
according to the Life Insurance Settlement Association. HB 348, unanimously passed last week, protects
consumers by succinctly and directly prohibiting initiation of life insurance for wager purposes—without rolling
back a policy owner’s property right to gain or utilize the market value of a properly initiated policy as he sees
fit.

This joint venture is just the first step in a goal to provide an end to end solution to the life settlement industry.

Value Life Corp(VLC) and Chapman, Hext & Co., P.C.. (CH&Co) have formalized a joint venture to bring VLC’s software and actuarial resources and CH&Co’s back office and accounting expertise to investors with all sizes of portfolios.

The year has just begun and Life-Exchange has just added a new Member firm to its list. Titus van Heur, a seasoned CEO of many companies, has started his own firm as Abacus Life Settlements Management in the Netherlands. Previously he was responsible for managing another Dutch firm active in this field.

Legacy to Expand into Life Settlement Portfolio Trading

Legacy Benefits Corporation (New York), a recognized leader in the life settlement industry, announces a strategic partnership with Mofet Holdings, Ltd. to broaden Legacy’s role as principal in the origination and trade of life insurance settlements and portfolios. As part of this new alliance, Mofet will acquire for cash a 50 percent interest in Legacy Benefits, LLC.

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort Orlando, Florida

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.

LISA
The month of September will offer a unique opportunity for producers and brokers in the burgeoning market of life settlements. The Life Insurance Settlement Association is presenting a day long Producer Seminar on September 24th and a day-long Broker Summit on September 25th in sunny Orlando, Florida. The producer seminar offers life insurance professionals from all industry segments a singular opportunity to expand their professional portfolios.

Lawrence S. Brown, Ryan A. Young and Robert F. Haran are pleased to announce the formation of 4Pluris, LLC, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
4Pluris originates structured financial products for institutional investors seeking to benefit from the attractive short and long term investment returns available to risk oriented capital in the life insurance marketplace. 4Pluris is also active in assisting insurance professionals and financial advisors, and their clients, in taking advantage of the myriad of wealth creation and wealth preservation opportunities in the rapidly evolving life insurance sector.

Institutional Investor Journals and the Life Insurance Settlement Association Publish New Research and Investment Strategies in a Special Section on Life Settlements in The Journal of Structured Finance

Life settlement-backed securities have seen tremendous growth in the past 12 months. The life settlement market expanded in 2006 to approximately $12 billion. While this number is still a fraction of what some predict will be the size in 10 years, it still represents a significant increase over the prior year. The market for life settlements grows as financial institutions become involved in unprecedented ways via securitization of life insurance policies or other new synthetic structures.
For the second year, Institutional Investor Journals and the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) have published a special section on life settlements in the Summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Structured Finance.

The Life Insurance Settlement Association announced its strong support today for the recently introduced bill in the District of Columbia City Council to regulate life settlements in that jurisdiction. This legislation, introduced at the request of the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking, comprehensively protects life insurance policyowners by imposing tough licensing requirements on settlement providers and brokers and thorough oversight of interactions with consumers, including an important new set of disclosures and affirmations designed to buttress insurable interest requirements and prevent STOLI (stranger originated life insurance).