Life insurance settlements ("LIS") constitute a potentially attractive candidate asset class for the issuance of rated securitized paper. The most recent longevity and demographic statistical ...

Securitization of life insurance could create a market for shady brokers. Oct. 5, 2009— -- After Dr. Eddie Powell lost both his legs to a hospital infection, he desperately needed financial help ...

The American Council of Life Insurers is asking policymakers to bar the securitization of life settlements. The group said yesterday that securitization would encourage promoters — keen on developing ...

Life settlement securitizations have picked up some renewed interest in recent weeks, and the sector is better placed than ever to live up to its volume potential. However, it still needs to get a few ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to two classes of notes from CBC Insurance Revenue Securitization, LLC, Series 2016-1, a securitization of the ...

The Life Settlement Institute (LSI), the leading organization representing secondary market providers for life insurance, responded today to a February 3rd ACLI News Release urging policymakers to ban ...

An insurance product that allows policyholders to receive death benefits like a pension while alive will be launched on the 30th. The Financial Services Commission held a meeting on the 22nd to review ...

The use of asset-backed securities as an alternative to reinsurance has become well established since 1992, when property/casualty companies, looking for new hedges in the wake of Hurricane Andrew's ...

Current life insurance payout securitization products operated by five life insurers will be expanded to all 19 domestic life ...

Having applied securitization to its vehicle insurance book last year via the innovative FCC Sparc deal, AXA now plans to offload mortality risk to the capital markets via a synthetic securitization ...

As they look for new sources of profit, some Wall Street — and Main Street — investors have embraced a ghoulish way to make money from the death of ordinary Americans. Their unsavory activities could ...