This looks like good news… I would love to see some screen shots of this.

Model Actuarial Pricing Systems (MAPS), formerly Milliman Pricing Software, released a new MAPS Policy Model v2.0.

The new model, which is web based, integrates the individual policy and portfolio valuation models and delivers a number of significant features, including:

• Unified platform for Policy and Portfolio models
• Flexible portfolio construction and analysis
• Coordinating the management of multiple portfolios under various modeling scenarios
• Tracking and incorporating actual paid premiums since policy purchase
• Enhanced premium projection functionality
• Additional mortality modeling parameters

“We are excited to announce the release of MAPS Policy Model v2.0.  The new features are in direct response to our customers’ feedback and reflect our commitment to providing superior client service.  This is a major product release.  It provides a number of usability enhancements, particularly in the area of portfolio management.  Our clients integrate everyday buying and selling decisions into management of their overall portfolio,” commented Win Georg, of MAPS.

In the near future, MAPS intends to release a new simplified individual policy valuation model for life settlement brokers.

Other news:
Fasano Investor Focused Life Settlement Conference
HunterWest LifeMarkets

Source: PR

It is that time area again, when we start discussing the Life Settlement Conference for 2011.

This year it will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from September 22-23, 2011.

Topics will include:

• Turning Point: What Does the Future Hold for the Life Settlement Market?
• Investors: What Type of Investors Does the Market Need to Grow?
• Litigation: Will Favorable Court Decisions Bring New Capital to the Market?
• Fraud: What Will Be the Fallout of Regulatory Action Against Life Partners?
• Texas: Why is the Lone Star State Such a Magnet for Alleged Life Settlement Frauds?
• Life Expectancies: What are Fund Managers Doing to Develop Accurate Life Expectancies?
• Portfolios: How Do You Structure a Profitable Portfolio?
• Distressed Assets: What Value do Private Equity Funds and Hedge Funds See in Distressed Assets?
• Securitization: What Type of Pool is Needed for a Successful Rated Securitization?
• Legislation: What Progress Was Made this Year in Passing New Laws and Tweaking Older Ones?
• The Life Settlement Investor Roundtable
• Europe: What are the Latest Developments in the Keydata/Lifemark Scandal?
• Canada: What’s the Landscape for Life Settlements North of the Border?
• Tertiary Policies: Can They Bring Liquidity to the Market?

You don’t want to miss this event.  For more information visit dealflow.com or call  (516) 876-8006.

It seems there has been a lot more activity from individuals and firms looking to get into the investing side of Life Settlements.

Pacific West Capital Group will host a seminar on February 10th at the Safire Bistro in Camarillo, California. The topic will be investing in the Life Settlement market. Pacific West Capital Group specializes in the sale of interests in life settlements.

The life settlement market is the secondary market for life insurance. It is considered an alternative to traditional investments because returns are not tied to stock market performance, interest rate fluctuations or economic policies.

The Pacific West Capital Group educational seminars are an opportunity for serious investors to learn about the life settlement market. For further information about these seminars contact Pacific West Capital Group at 800-588-8000.

Other recent news:
Provident Capital is charged with fraud
Life Partners stock hits low

LISA is the popular Life Settlement Settlement Association

Recent buying activity affirms institutional investors’ growing interest in making life settlements an important part of their investment portfolios.

To meet the increased demand of investors seeking to learn more about life settlements, the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) will host its first life settlement conference on March 2 tailored to the needs of institutional investors. The conference will be held in New York at the Harvard Club.

“Life settlements provide a double benefit for institutional investors. They are uncorrelated to other assets and can provide attractive returns compared with fixed income alternative investments,” Darwin Bayston, LISA’s executive director explains.

“Investors really want to understand what this asset class is all about. As the voice of the life settlement industry, we are on a mission to present an informative, unbiased and valuable one day program.” Experts will cover topics that will give institutional investors specific, technical knowledge that will facilitate their participation in the life settlement market. Among the areas to be covered are life expectancies, life settlement valuations and portfolio construction, optimizing cash flows from a life settlement portfolio and measuring a portfolio’s performance.

The conference provides a perspective particularly suitable to long-term institutional investors. It will be particularly beneficial to public and private pension fund sponsors, endowment and foundation sponsors, private equity investors, hedge fund sponsors, mutual fund managers and wealth fund managers.

Institutional investors need to understand this maturing and viable asset class which is now regulated in 40 states offering potential investors greater transparency and full disclosure. Conning & Company estimates that there was approximately $35 billion in life settlement face value in force at year-end 2009. And, the firm continues, the market has the potential to grow to roughly $100 billion over the next decade.

Qualified institutional investors will receive one complimentary registration to attend this inaugural conference.

LISA’s mission is to promote the development, integrity and reputation of the life settlement industry and to promote a competitive market for the people it serves.