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Ways to Ease the Pressure of a Cash Crunch
The New York Times, October 14th, 2009MANY retirees are in a cash crunch — with a lower income stream from their investment portfolios, personal expenses that are higher than expected, or both. While most assets can be used to generate liquidity, Read More
Is this subprime redux?
Las Vegas Sun, September 10th, 2009Many Wall Street investment banks are on the verge of taking the plunge into another scheme that involves bundling and reselling what are thought to be sure-thing assets, just as bundled subprime mortgages were thought Read More
Life Insurers Profit as Retirees Fear Outliving Cash
Bloomberg, August 13th, 2009Sales of so-called immediate annuities are climbing as retirees are drawn to lifetime payments guaranteed by U.S. insurance companies. Immediate annuities pay a periodic fixed amount of money for life in exchange Read More
Investing in a sure thing: Life insurance
Arizona Republic, July 26th, 2009Selling life-insurance policies on the secondary market is an increasingly popular way for investors to capitalize on one of life's surest events: death. Investors, including some major players on Wall Street, buy the Read More
Rising prices hammer seniors on fixed incomes
USA TODAY - July 2, 2008 Long before workers at the San Diego Food Bank began distributing cardboard food cartons from the back of a truck on a recent day, elderly men and women, many needing walkers and metal canes, formed a line in a church parking Read More
Early Retirees in New Ventures, Mostly for Fun
New York Times - July 3, 2008 RISK-AVERSE? Clueless as to what P.&.L means? You, too, can be an entrepreneur. Not the hard-driving type who makes the business news pages. Rather, the laid-back, come-what-may variety. Many of them are part of Read More
Weathering Tough Financial Times—The Long-term Costs of Quick Cash
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, June 26, 2008 Rising costs of food and fuel, declines and volatility in the housing and financial markets, and an ever-tightening credit crunch have gathered to form a perfect storm that could lead some Americans Read More
Who Is Paying for Your Long-Term Care?
Senior Spectrum Online, January 15th, 2007Many Americans assume that Medi-care, supplemental policies or standard health insurance policies will cover their long-term care expenses — an assumption that often leads Read More
An Innsurance Man Builds a Lively Business in Death
The Wall Street Journal, November 26th, 2007Alan Buerger wants to show investors the upside of death. The former insurance salesman runs Coventry First LLC, which lets investors essentially bet on -- and profit from -- other people's demise.His company Read More
Retirement income products reduce guesswork with nest eggs
Marketwatch, October 11th, 2007Everyone is tripping over themselves to launch retirement income products, funds (and annuities) that take the fuss and mess out of how retirees figure out what they can withdraw from their nest eggs without having to Read More
Life settlement fund surges
Investor Daily, August 20th, 2007Australia's first life settlement fund has rocketed in the past four months to become one of the largest of its type in the world with funds under management (FUM) of half a billion dollars. The Life Settlements Wholesale Read More
Life Insurance on the Line
Marketplace, August 3rd, 2007Lisa Napoli: A few weeks ago, a pair of Irish hedge funds filed for bankruptcy after some risky investments went south. Ritchie Capital had invested in what are called "life settlement policies." That's basically where Read More
Who's cashing in your chips?
The New York Daily News,  July 30th, 2007Someone out there wants to place a bet on when you're going to die - and they're willing to hand you a chunk of cash now, while you're still alive. This fast-growing business allows seniors to raise quick Read More
Life Insurance on the Line
Marketplace, July 17th, 2007Lisa Napoli: A few weeks ago, a pair of Irish hedge funds filed for bankruptcy after some risky investments went south. Ritchie Capital had invested in what are called "life settlement policies." That's basically where investors Read More
Basics of life settlements that seniors should know
The Ft. Collins Coloradoan, February 25th, 2006 Viatical settlements gained popularity in the 1980s as a source of cash for terminally ill life insurance policyholders. In the 1990s, viatical settlements gave rise to life settlements. Life settlements Read More
 
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