An Update on the Life Settlement Market

At the start of the year, many life insurers worried that rising unemployment and declining portfolio values would increase consumer demand for life settlements as a source of cash. Midway through 2009, we’ve seen the opposite. With few exceptions, brokers in the $12 billion life settlements industry report sluggish sales at sharply reduced prices.

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