Archive for May, 2008
Life Insurance Settlements – Real life examples
The LISA White Paper also provides real life examples of life settlements in action.
Life Insurance Settlements – What are the advantages?
The LISA White Paper also discusses the many advantages a life settlement offers policy owners compared to the limited options offered by their insurance companies.
ESPN primed for ad growth
The bump in ratings for ESPN has relatively little to do with the Writers Guild of America’s three-month strike.
Life Insurance Settlements – A more viable exit strategy
According to the LISA White Paper ”insurance companies have built their businesses with an anticipation of high lapse and surrender rates.” As a result, it costs them money when a life settlement is executed and the policy stays in force until the death of the insured.
Life Insurance Settlements – Reasons consumers abandon polic
Today I am continuing to quote the Life Insurance Settlement Association’s August 2006 White Paper titled Cashing In On Unneeded Life Insurance Policies – How Seniors Are Benefiting From Life Settlements.
Society of Financial Service Professionals
The Society of Financial Service Professionals has published their May 2008 Estate Planning newsletter, and included another life settlement article from Settlement Benefits Association.
Life Settlements – Naming the unanswered questions
The previously discussed LISA White Paper lists the following specific questions consumers are voicing to their insurance companies:
Low Down On Life Settlements
David Mickelson is an expert with life settlements and helping seniors make the most of their Life Insurance opportunities.
Regulation: What does it mean for consumers?
2008 has seen a flurry of life settlement regulatory activity in almost half of the states. Life settlement regulation is now changing at a faster rate than consumers can read it. Fortunately, most of the regulation is going in the same direction and is easy to anticipate. Life settlement regulation is a double-edged sword, posing both benefits and costs to consumers. The obvious benefit of a more regulated market is consumer security. The growing trend in regulation has been to increase ho