Poll: Do You Think Institutional Investors Will Pull Back on Their Alternative Credit Allocations in the Next 12–24 Months?
Recent interest rate rises on both sides of the Atlantic and general political and economic…
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Life Settlements Portfolio Construction – Art or Science?
The concept of a life settlement investment is quite simple: the collected death benefits must…
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Q&A: Ashu Bhargava, Clara Pensions
Clara Pensions, the British pension superfund, celebrated its first anniversary of completing the assessment process…
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German Secondary Life Market Robust Amidst Cost-of-Living Challenges
Reasons abound as to why an American would sell their life insurance policy to a…
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Life Insurance Companies Continue To Offer Opportunities for Private Debt Despite Macro Uncertainty
High inflation, the spectre of a recession and an increase in the cost of borrowing…
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Roundtable: Life Settlement Brokers
Data from The Life Settlement Report, a part of The Deal suggests that 2021 saw…
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Getting Fast No: Machine Learning in Pre-Qual
Most of the activity in the life settlements market today consists of tertiary blocks of…
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Poll: What Is Your Best Estimate for the Total Value of Life Settlements in Assets Under Management (AUM) Across All Life Settlement Funds?
The size of the life settlement market is difficult to measure, given the lack of…
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Have We Learned from The Past or Are We Doomed To Repeat It?
Like many things in life, longevity markets have followed broad cycles. Industry veterans will remember…
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Q&A: Barry Flagg, Veralytic
In a unanimous decision on October 20th, New York state’s highest court recently held that…
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Understanding Risks Means Understanding Opportunities in Insurance Linked Alternative Credit Strategies
When conducting investment due diligence on a strategy for inclusion in their portfolios, one of…
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Life Settlements Well Positioned To Navigate Choppy Macro Waters But Caution Required
The current macroeconomic environment is having a significant impact on millions of people and businesses…
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Could Rising Interest Rates Be a Catalyst for More Attention on the Life ILS Market?
Alternative credit comes in many different shapes and sizes, with fund managers of all sorts…
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The Fictitious ‘Mansour Seck’
On July 11, 2007, according to court documents, the Mansour Seck Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust…
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Proposed DWP Regulations May Hasten the Demise of DB Pensions in the UK
Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes in which the employer bears the investment and longevity risk…
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