Life Settlement Market: Emerging Trends and Experience

The secondary market in life insurance policies has been a topic of high interest with life insurers for some time, and Transamerica Reinsurance has reported on the life settlement market from different perspectives. This issue looks at the secondary market from the view of a life expectancy underwriter. Recent data now suggest that the life expectancies assumed when pricing life settlement policies may have been too short.

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