National Underwriter Life and Health

By: Trevor Thomas

A life settlement think tank is defending the value of the life settlement securitization concept.

The American Council of Life Insurers, Washington, asked Feb. 3 for policymakers to ban the securitization of life insurance policies sold in the secondary market. Packaging pools of life settlement transactions to back securities encourages stranger-originated life insurance and other forms of fraud, the ACLI says.

http://www.lifeandhealthinsurancenews.com/News/2010/2/Pages/ISI-Defends-Life-PolicyBacked-Securities-Market.aspx

Published on 08 Feb 2010 at 09:31 pm