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Investors will be able to access WAY’s range of inheritance tax (IHT) solutions while adopting an investment strategy uncorrelated to equity markets and promising smooth and steady returns.

Since it launched its Life Settlement Fund in 2005, EEA has delivered consistent results, with 34 consecutive positive months’ returns to end October 2008.

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The Price of Business and Houston Business Daily is proud to announce the addition of Sandra Wilder as a new advisor to our media.  Sandra is a leader in life settlement policies, which is an innovative approach to investment in a challenging economy.

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Secondary Life Capital, LLC (”SLC”) announced today that the State of PENNSYLVANIA has granted SLC its life settlement provider license. In addition to Pennsylvania, SLC has recently been awarded a life settlement provider license in NEVADA and KANSAS. Founded in 2003, the Washington DC based firm is a leading provider of life settlements and life settlement portfolios to institutional investors worldwide.

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Insurance and financial advisors should update and meet with their clients if the carrier credit rating has changed since they issued their clients policy. Given the recent market turmoil, advisors should evaluate clients existing policies and may consider presenting life settlement as a cash-out option for the client if the carrier no longer meets the client’s tolerance for risk and safety.

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Vigilan and Life Settlement Financial announced today their collaboration to develop improved models for the valuation of life insurance policies. Life Settlement Financial buys life insurance policies and thus unlocks the value so that seniors may improve their lifestyles by paying for more care, by moving into assisted living communities or just vacationing more! Together, the two companies will join forces to increase the accuracy of valuations on life insurance policies to ensure residents have financial stability to live out their final years.

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Democratic political strategist Mark Penn addresses how the industry can improve public image at the Life Insurance Settlement Association’s 14th Annual Conference.

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Halloween may be over but hedge funds continued to post frightening returns in October. The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index lost 9.26% in October and three of the eight strategy indices tracked by the HFRX indices posted double-digit losses.

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One asset class that appears to be becoming increasingly attractive to investors is Senior Life Settlements. These are second hand life insurance policies of Americans over 65 years of age, with a life expectancy of less than 15 years. There is now a competitive secondary market for US life insurance policies. US policy holders are now free to sell their policies in the open market, for normally well above the cash surrender value offered by their insurance companies.

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Life settlement industry leaders have pledged to expand their current legislative advocacy and consumer education initiatives in order to counter lingering public misconceptions caused, in part, by recent media reports.

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Vigilan said that Life Settlement Financial buys life insurance policies and thus unlocks the value so that seniors may improve their lifestyles by paying for more care, by moving into assisted living communities or just vacationing more