By Larry Simon, Founder and CEO, Life Settlement Solutions, Inc.

Almost a year after the financial crisis began, the capital markets are finally starting to stabilize but the impacts of the crisis continue to have a restrictive impact on capital availability in the settlement marketplace. Like all of you, we will happy to put this year behind us but we are making sure that lessons learned will get carried forward. One constant has stayed the same and is gaining attention from institutional investors worldwide – life settlements are a viable alternative asset class that is not going away and offers key benefits that are strongly desired nowadays. Namely, life settlements offer attractive returns in a non-correlated asset with highly rated receivables.

Press Releases

Life Settlement Solutions' "Tips of the Trade" column provides a resource for agents and brokers seeking to use life settlements as a means of building their business.

Legislators and regulators throughout the U.S. continue to work through a number of life-settlement industry issues.

The Life Insurance Settlement Association hosts a number of educational and legislative events each year.

Life Settlement Solutions strives to stay on top of industry trends and listen to input from its distribution partners.

Management of Life Settlement Solutions created the first institutional funding platform in the life-settlements market and originated the first major pool of institutionally funded life settlement policies.

This year, Life Settlement Solutions will be presenting or exhibiting at several major industry events.