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		<title>Will SEC&#8217;s life settlement proposal kill industry?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics say plan to treat all life settlements as securities will shrink the industry – or worse; others say it&#8217;s not so Investment News By Darla Mercado On Thursday, a government task force recommended treating life settlements as securities, thus bringing the instruments under tighter regulatory scrutiny. On Friday, some market participants backed the idea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States pitted against federal regulators over life settlements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment News By Darla Mercado A recommendation by an SEC task force that life settlements be treated and regulated as securities has raised concerns that another turf battle may be brewing between state insurance regulators and federal securities cops.  “We generally have concerns when the federal government pre-empts state authority, and this would be no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life settlements are DOA as an investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betting on someone&#8217;s life could put your portfolio six feet under MarketWatch By Robert Powell BOSTON (MarketWatch) &#8212; Life settlements are not wildly popular investments. But they are wild investments. And to that end, federal regulators and lawmakers are fast at work trying to tame these slippery products, which promise a much higher return over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Expectancy Providers to Refine Best Practices, Mortality Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Life Settlements Report By Dealflow Media Life expectancy providers will refine best practices to guide their profession and a new actual-to-expected mortality table to help investors compare life expectancy estimates among the underwriters. Nate Evans, chief executive of Maple Life Financial and a new board member of the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA), said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifemark $60m rescue loan withdrawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFA online By Katrina Baugh Lifemark, one of the life settlements groups behind Keydata, could be facing liquidation after US hedge fund CarVal pulled a $60m rescue offer. CarVal entered a six-week exclusivity period with Luxembourg-based Lifemark last month to try and thrash out a deal but this has failed, according to the Life Settlements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Agency Backpedals On Settlement Requisites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Settlement firms balked at disclosing certain information  Life and Health Insurance News By Trevor Thomas The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has revised its proposed emergency regulations regulating life settlement providers in the state to make them less onerous to life settlement industry. Among other changes, the revised rules state that audited financial statements submitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Should Define Life Settlements as Securities, SEC Report Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Life Settlements Report By Dealflow Media A report by a Securities and Exchange Commission task force issued today said the commission should consider recommending that Congress amend its definition of securities to include life settlements. The SEC task force also recommended that commission staff should continue monitoring life settlement brokers and providers to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extract from Evolution of Life Expectancies in the Life Insurance Secondary Market&#8230;Current Trends and New Developments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurers Utilize Life Expectancy Analyses When Issuing Life Insurance Policies, But Their LEs Differ From LEs Developed For Older People Selling Their Life Insurance Policies By: Insurance Studies Institute In a generalized sense, insurers use life expectancies to price life policy products when they use mortality tables to provide a guideline of the life expectancies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPL in strategic deal with Japanese asset manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment Adviser Magazine By: Sam Shaw Managing Partners Limited (MPL) has signed a strategic partnership with Japanese asset manager United Investments to offer Japanese pension funds access to the returns available through life settlements. MPL believes the Japan market for funds that invest in life settlements market could be as high as $1bn (£673.49m). United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford: Keydata Was Trying to Resolve Tax Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Life Settlements Report  By: Dealflow Media Keydata Investment Services founder Stewart Ford said the company was in the process of resolving tax liabilities with U.K. tax officials when the Financial Services Authority placed it under administration last June. The FSA&#8217;s public statements that Keydata was insolvent because of a £5 million ($7.5 million) tax [...]]]></description>
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