Life Settlement News

In Progressive Move， 21st Services Forms Independent Medical Advisory Board to Study Longevity， Mortality Risk
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — 21st Services has created its first Medical Advisory Board. The Board, which is independent of the company, is an innovative approach in the life settlement industry.
Input from the Board will help 21st Services enhance the sophistication [...]

Dutch pension company Cordares invests in the US secondary insurance market
This is the pension provider’s first investment in the US life settlement market.Â
LONDON (Thomson IM) - Cordares, the pension provider in charge of 26.5 bln eur of
assets of five pension schemes including the construction and social housing sector,
has become one of the first Dutch [...]

A benchmark study featured in the March 2007 issue of Insurance Marketing highlights effective marketing channels used to attract agents. According to the study, the most successful channel was direct mail, which had a 33 percent efficiency rate. This is compared to telemarketing and email marketing, which were listed at 29 percent and 25 percent [...]

Boston Ventures has completed three acquisitions this year, investing in Home Pages Directories, an independent, regionally concentrated community yellow pages publisher; 21st Services, a leading provider of mission critical, life expectancy information that is currently used in thee life settlement industry and the secondary market for life insurance; and Western Institutional Review Board, which provides [...]

Coventry Comments on King Lawsuit: Reiterates Opposition to Investor-Initiated Life Insurance; Did Not Buy $10 Million Policy
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. - In response to inquiries, Coventry First today issued the following statement about a lawsuit Larry King filed against a life insurance agent that assisted Mr. King in selling two life insurance policies in the secondary [...]