3 Life Settlements Market Highlights and Outlook
Conning Inc, has released their latest highlights and outlook of the current market for life settlements. Life Settlements Steady Grown, Growing Potential 2017 predicts that there is still growing demand and supply in the market. However, insurers’ actions, particularly the increase in COI (cost of insurance) may create some market pressure in the future. […]
ESG Investing with Life Settlements
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment. Whilst, ESG investment has not yet reached mainstream status in some countries, it is fast becoming more than just a trend for many Australian investors, as noted during the AIMA Alternative Investment Conference-Australia. When […]
What do Investors Want from Alternative Investment?
This “New Normal” world if filled with low yields and low growth. It is not surprising that increasing allocations to alternative investment is the new mainstream rather than unusual. Asset Managers take note, during the recent AIMA Australia Annual Forum, one message came across loud and clear, ‘What value are you delivering to your investors?’. […]
Traded Life Policy Investments
To combat the relative illiquidity of the life settlement market, some investors are searching for the holy grail of a centralised traded life policy platform. Lack of liquidity is one of the key disincentives for investors new to the market. With historical volatility in traditional investments, a limited liquidity market makes some institutional investors uneasy. […]
6 Reasons to Invest in Life Settlements
There are plenty of reasons to invest in life settlements. This alternative investment has developed due to a unique necessity. In fact, it has caused a positive impact for both institutional investors and the insured individual. The prolonged low-interest-rate environment is forcing investors to embark on paths away from traditional assets as they seek a […]
Expanding Alternative Investment Thinking
Over our 10 years in operation, we have been committed to educating investors on this unique and low volatility asset, life settlements. Encouraging investors to expand their alternative investment thinking. Proceeding on this track, GI Asset Management is happy to announce that we are joining the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). With this relationship, we […]
Performance Cycle in a Life Settlements Portfolio
Understanding the life settlements performance cycle is the key to a successful investment campaign. From a manager’s perspective, this is also vital in managing client expectations. Although the asset has many non-traditional investment features it still does operates within a “cycle” of sorts. Like any asset class, life settlements provide certain potential excess return opportunities […]
Evolution of Life Expectancy Calculations
How is a life expectancy estimated in a life settlement transaction? Traditionally, this service has been performed by suitably qualified, registered underwriting specialists. They are given full access to current details of the insured life including current medical records and lifestyle information. Similarly, this is the process used by the insurance company when pricing and […]
Don’t fake it! Show the real returns
It seems that fake news has been a hot topic lately. Even the life settlements market isn’t immune. We sometimes see published returns that seem too good to be true. We fear that some of these rely on valuation assumptions rather than actual realised returns. Headlines that report solely positive or smooth regular returns are […]
The life settlement market is heating up
This article was originally published on Life Health Pro (http://www.lifehealthpro.com). Published on the 17th February 2017 , “The Life Settlements Market is Heating Up” and written by Robin S. Weinberger and Peter N. Katz A number of factors have reignited the life settlement market with both consumers and investors showing rising interest. The oldest […]
