Browsing: Life Settlements

New data suggests the average life settlement payout to policyholders is over $200,000.

Industry group the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) has released its 2025 annual market data, showing that consumers who sold their life insurance policies through a LISA member received nearly nine times their cash surrender value.

The brief addresses the significant consumer and market implications of restricting consumer rights found in many convertible term life insurance policies, including preventing the policy owner’s ability to sell their policy in the life settlement marketplace.

Both micro and macro impacts for life settlement market but counterparty fundamentals remain strong.

For life settlement markets, earlier diagnosis of chronic diseases may reduce projected life expectancy, thereby influencing the expected duration of premium payments and the timing of policy maturities.

Two recent litigation cases produced opposite results for the life settlement market.

How durational mortality curves, stochastic A/E analysis and independent audits can strengthen investor confidence and fund sustainability.

LifeRoc Capital’s Brandon Marz provides his thoughts on the state of the life settlement industry’s secondary market in this month’s Q&A.

Delaware Supreme Court opinion says that the three-year statute of limitations applies to estates seeking to recover the death benefit from a STOLI policy.

Kosmos 2026-1 is the seventh asset-backed security issuance since 2019 for the firm and the third in six months.