Published on 29 Jun 2009
Daily News
By Joseph Lisanti
Many people buy life insurance when they start a family to provide for them in case anything should happen. Yet some people are still paying premiums when they start collecting Social Security, which may be financial overkill.
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/06/29/2009-06-29_life_insurance_cashout.html
Published on 26 Jun 2009
Insurance & Financial Advisor – IFAwebnews.com
By IFAwebnews Staff
About half of a group of senior citizens owning life insurance policies was unaware it could sell its life policies for cash, according to a new survey.
http://ifawebnews.com/2009/06/26/seniors-unaware-of-life-settlement-option-study-says/
Published on 23 Jun 2009
National Underwriter
By Staff Writer
A new law in Maine requires life insurance companies to advise senior life insurance policy owners that life insurance settlements are an alternative to surrendering their policy or allowing it to lapse.
Published on 11 Jun 2009
Economist.com
Speculating on mortality is a sensitive business. So when a recent conference on the life-settlement industry—which allows global investors to bet on the life expectancy of elderly, ill and preferably rich Americans—was held underneath a Methodist hall in London, one speaker was spooked.
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13832179
