Our Industry's Trends
Research by Bernstein Research indicates that money managers invested more in life settlements in
2006 than in the previous seven years combined. The
study also suggests that the market for life settlements in the U.S. alone could reach $160 billion by
2030.1
1.
Life Insurance
Long View — Life Settlements Need Not Be Unsettling; Bernstein Research Call; Kamath, Suneet
and Timothy Sledge, March 4, 2005; page 8
Some of the largest financial institutions in the world - banks, investment firms, insurance firms —
have come to see the life settlement industry as an increasingly attractive alternative investment venue.
The interest in life settlements as hedges against the vagaries of other markets is growing rapidly and has
engaged the attention of institutional investors in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin
America.
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